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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient region of eastern Europe northeast of the Black Sea. The Sarmatian people occupied the area after the fourth century BC and fled across the Carpathian Mountains and along the Danube River after the onslaught of the Huns. The term is also applied to the territory between the Vistula and Volga Rivers during the time of the Roman Empire.
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- proper noun An
ancient territory corresponding to the western part of greaterScythia (modernUkraine , SouthernRussia , and the easternBalkans ).
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Examples
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We see, on the contrary, that after his victory, and to punish the Sarmatia is for the ravages they had committed, he withheld the sums which it had been the custom to bestow.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Asiatic Sarmatia, is the fictitious appellation of the mystic abode of the gods, the Olympus of Scandinavia; from whence the prophet was supposed to descend, when he announced his new religion to the
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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[Sidenote A: _Dabulam_, a fertile place in Arabia.] [Sidenote B: _Scænits_, be a people in Arabia, that dwell altogither in tents.] [Sidenote C: _Sauromatans_, be people of Sarmatia, which is a large cuntry, reaching frõ Germany & the riuer Vistula to Hycænia, and is deuided into two parts Europea and Asiatica.]
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Many of Bobrowski's poems take place in the historical land of Sarmatia, the land of steppes between the Vistula and the Volga.
Johannes Bobrowski greenintegerblog 2008
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That burning the dead was used in Sarmatia is affirmed by
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About the end of the seventh century, they, like all the other nations inhabiting Sarmatia, made irruptions towards the Danube, and inundated the Roman Empire.
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I have traded insults with the arrogant warriors of Sarmatia and sifted rumors of the distant hun.
Hadrian's Wall.html Dietrich, William 2004
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In Europe he made Tuisco king of Sarmatia, from the floude of Tanais vnto the Rhene.
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When it bare the name of Sarmatia, it was diuided into two chiefe parts: the White and the Black.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Some haue thought that the name of Sarmatia was first taken, from one
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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