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  Sarmatia - Encyclopedia.com
Sarmatia, ancient district between the Vistula River and the Caspian Sea, occupied by the Sarmatians [Lat.
AD The term is vague and is also used to refer to the territory along the Danube and across the Carpathians where the Sarmatians were later driven by the Huns.
This version claims Arthur was born on the eastern fringes of the Roman empire in Sarmatia, south of modern-day Russia, as Lucius Artorius Castus, before coming to Britain.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Sarmatia.html   (891 words)

  
 Pravapis.org - Belarusian language - White Russia
Giles Fletcher, the English Ambassador to Moscow in 1588 noted that "The country of Russia was sometimes called Sarmatia...
When it bare the name of Sarmatia, it was divided into two chief parts, the white and the fl.
The white Sarmatia was all that part that lieth towards the north and on the side of Livonia – as the provinces now called Dvina, Vaga, Ustiug, Vologda, Kargopol, Novgorod, etc. – whereof Novgorod Velikii was the metropolis or chief city.
www.pravapis.org /art_white_russia.asp   (671 words)

  
 uboat.net - Allied Ships hit by U-boats - Sarmatia (Steam merchant)
At 12.00 hours on 18 Jun, 1940, the Sarmatia (Master Anton Ratia) was stopped by a shot across her bow by U-28 and the crew immediately abandoned ship.
The U-boat had missed with one torpedo at 11.00 hours and then surfaced to stop the ship.
If you can help us with any additional information on this vessel then please contact us.
www.uboat.net /allies/merchants/360.html   (191 words)

  
  Sarmatia
The territory of Sarmatia was an expansive stretch of land reaching from the Caspian Sea in the East to the Vistula River in the West, and as far south as the Danube.
Essentially, Sarmatia was a collection of independent tribes, much like ancient Germania, that encompassed parts of modern Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States, Central Asian nations and into central European countries such as Romania and Poland.
The Sarmatian people were a blend of Iranian nomadic horse tribes that were likely related to the Scythians.
www.unrv.com /provinces/sarmatia.php   (790 words)

  
  Gutenkarte » History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir... » Sarmatia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
By presents, by arms, and by a slight fortification drawn across the Isthmus, they effectually guarded against the roving plunderers of Sarmatia, the access of a country, which, from its peculiar situation and convenient harbors, commanded the Euxine Sea and Asia Minor.
The unoffending strength with which Nature has endowed the greater quadrupeds was admired in the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus of the Nile, ^88 and a majestic troop of thirty-two elephants.
The narrow defiles of Mount Caucasus were in their hands, and it was in their choice, either to admit or to exclude the wandering tribes of Sarmatia, whenever a rapacious spirit urged them to penetrate into the richer climes of the South.
gutenkarte.org /place/731/15468   (2628 words)

  
 Seminar
Wieczorek’s thesis is that too much emphasis has been hitherto placed on the centrality of Sarmatia in Bobrowski’s work and too little on his position as a writer in the DDR.
Bobrowski’s development away from his avowed theme (Sarmatia and the German guilt in Eastern Europe) is well documented here with good use made of the archival holdings.
Between Sarmatia and Socialism is an informative and useful study, and I highly recommend it.
www.humanities.ualberta.ca /seminar/display.cfm?ReviewID=14   (716 words)

  
 RESTAURANT SARMATIA - old style food
Sarmatia et Scythia, Russia et Tartaria Europaea - download 3,82 Mb Sarmatian chronology -download 534 Kb Sarmatia (särma´she), ancient district between the Vistula River and the Caspian Sea, occupied by the Sarmatians [Lat.
A.D. The term is vague and is also used to refer to the territory along the Danube and across the Carpathians where the Sarmatians were later driven by the Huns.
A.D. Sarmatia in first ages was called whole eastern Sarmatians in antiquity testifies part of Europe, what distinctly about meaning A.D.
www.sarmacja.com.pl /history.htm   (213 words)

  
 Sarmatians Summary
Sarmatia and Scythia in 100 BC, also shown is the extent of the Parthian Empire.
Jordanes supports this hypothesis by telling us on the one hand that he was familiar with the Geography of Ptolemy, which includes the entire Balto-Slavic territory in Sarmatia, and on the other that this same region was Scythia.
Sarmatia (Polish: Sarmacja) was also the unofficial, semi-legendary and poetic name of the Commonwealth, which became fashionable in the 17th century, designating qualities associated with the literate citizenry of the vast Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
www.bookrags.com /Sarmatians   (4625 words)

  
  sarmatia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Between Sarmatia And Socialism: The Life and Works of Johannes Bobrowski.
Sarmatia, the early Polish kingdom: From the original Nuremberg chronicle, printed by Anton Koberger in 1493
even the knights, who as natives of Sarmatia might be expected to converse in an early...
www.halleuropeanhistory.com /top/sites/10/1/sarmatia.html   (626 words)

  
 Sarmatians
Sarmatia Europæa" separated from "Sarmatia Asiatica" by the Tanais (the River Don), based on Greek literary sources, in a map printed in London, ca 1770.
When one crosses the Tanais, one is no longer in Scythia; the first region on crossing is that of the Sauromatae, who, beginning at the upper end of the Palus Maeotis, stretch northward a distance of fifteen days’ journey, inhabiting a country which is entirely bare of trees, whether wild or cultivated.
In contemporary Poland, "Sarmatian" (sarmacki) is a form of ironic self-identification, and is sometimes used as a synonym for the Polish national character.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/Sarmatians.html   (3263 words)

  
 Sarmatian Review XVIII.2: Letters
In a plenary session on October 24, 1953 Sarmatia Universal [Sarmacja Swiatowa], Inc., Boston, MA voted to join formally The American Council of Polish Cultural Clubs, Inc. and to do its bit in helping support and expand the wonderful work being done by the Council.
Sarmatia Universal, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (incorporated 1949) has an ideology that can be summed up in one word: POMOST, meaning a bridge or a span.
A bridge or span of better understanding between the younger and the older generations of Polish Americans; between those Poles who have long settled in the United States, and those recently arrived from the European continent; between those Poles who are beyond our contry's limits and those Poles still in their native country, Poland.
www.ruf.rice.edu /~sarmatia/498/letters.html   (1063 words)

  
 Sarmatians
The Scythians more or less disappear from history, and their country was from now on known as Sarmatia.
During their migration to the west, they had assimilated other ethnic groups and from now on, it is probably best to describe them as a federation of tribes.
When, the Greek geographer Strabo of Amasia described Sarmatia, he mentioned four groups living between the rivers Dnepr and Danube.
www.livius.org /sao-sd/sarmatians/sarmatians.html   (857 words)

  
 LacusCurtius • Ptolemy's Geography — Book III, Chapter 5
European Sarmatia is terminated on the north by the Sarmatian ocean adjoining the Venedicus bay and by a part of the unknown land, a description of which is the following:
Maeotis which extends as far as the Tanais river, then by the Tanais river, and by the line which extends from the sources of the Tanais river toward the unknown land as far as the indicated terminus.
The Greater Venedae races inhabit Sarmatia along the entire Venedicus bay; and above Dacia are the Peucini and the Basternae; and along the entire coast of Maeotis are the Iazyges and the Rhoxolani; more toward the interior from these are the Amaxobii and the Scythian Alani.
penelope.uchicago.edu /Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/_Texts/Ptolemy/3/5*.html   (600 words)

  
 The Slavs
The general opinion is that it appeared for the first time in written documents in the sixth century of the Christian era.
However, before this the Alexandrian scholar Ptolemy (about A.D. 100-178) mentioned in his work, "Geographike hyphegesis", a tribe called Stavani (Stavanoi) which was said to live in European Sarmatia between the Lithuanian tribes of the Galindae and the Sudeni and the Sarmatic tribe of the Alans.
He also mentioned another tribe, Soubenoi, which he assigned to Asiatic Sarmatia on the other side of the Alani.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/slavs.html   (7640 words)

  
 sarmatia - OneLook Dictionary Search
Sarmatia : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Sarmatia : E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook [home, info]
Sarmatia : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
www.onelook.com /?loc=rescb&w=sarmatia   (100 words)

  
 Dates and facts: Chronological history of Pridnestrovie | Pridnestrovie.net - Tiraspol, PMR: Pridnestrovskaia ...
More than two thousand years ago, the area was part of Sarmatia and Scythia, separated from Dacia (today's Moldova) by the Dniester River which formed the border.
The Dniester River forms the Western-most reaches of Sarmatia.
On the other side is Dacia, the forerunner to today's Romania and Moldova and wholly separate in culture, language, ethnicity and way of life.
pridnestrovie.net /history-cronological.html   (2241 words)

  
 Classical Gazetteer, page 306   (Site not responding. Last check: )
(Saar-Madai, " sons of the Medes," Sauromatse, Samatfie), the people of Sarmatia; descended from the Medes.
Sarmatia asiatica, a country of Asia, ex­tending from Tanais fl.
Sarmatia europe a, a country of Europe, extending from Tyras fl.
www.ancientlibrary.com /gazetteer/0308.html   (399 words)

  
 Ancient Imports - Early Olbian Cast Dolphin Money
These are much better then average examples and make a great addition to any coin collection as well as making a nice gift for the dolphin lover.
#14672 VF Thrace Sarmatia Olbia Cast Bronze Dolphin Coinage
#14674 VF Thrace Sarmatia Olbia Cast Bronze Dolphin Coinage
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 Iranian Peoples: THE SARMATIANS - (CAIS)
Sarmatians were still a force the Romans had to reckon with in the late 4th century AD.
The term Sarmatia is applied by later writers to as much as was known of what is Central and Eastern Europe, including all that which the older authorities call Scythia, the latter name being transferred to regions farther east.
Ptolemy's Geography gave maps of European and Asiatic Sarmatia.
www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Anthropology/Sarmatians/sarmatians.htm   (603 words)

  
 Sarmatia Project - Game Localization Made Simple
, the Sarmatia project regroups a number of initiatives in the area of game localization:
The members of the Sarmatia project team work as professional translators in the following languages:
As the team grows, we will be able to support additional languages.
sarmatia.locworks.org   (96 words)

  
 RUMORS OF WAR
he western realms of Scythia and Sarmatia are split by a large river, which has it's roots deep in mutant‑infested Erlog, far to the east of the Black Mountains.
Being in the center of the two biggest kingdoms in the west, it is a very widely traveled area.
It was written on very high quality paper and the long, flowery hand of King Aleric of Sarmatia was easily recognizable.
www.angelfire.com /wizard2/barlekis/Fall6.html   (3915 words)

  
 Sarmatia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
W okresie petersburskim Sarmatia posługiwała się barwami biało-amarantowo-zielonymi, czyli połączeniem barw narodowych z zielenią symbolizująca nadzieję na odzyskanie niepodległości.
Warszawy Sarmatia przyjęła barwy brązowo-srebrno-seledynowe, symbolizujące stałość, honor i przyjaźń.
Inicjatorzy reaktywacji K! Sarmatia wywodzili się spośród studentów warszawskiej ówczesnej Akademii Teologii Katolickiej.
pl.efactory.pl /Sarmatia   (127 words)

  
 Sarmatia - NetSword Discussion Forums
By the way, geographical location and identification of European Sarmatia firstly done by neighbors in Tauria/Chersones (Euxine sea); I mean Greeks.
So it was very very known area of Europe, including, also they were trade partners.
It's amazing - in British Library I can't find maps without Sarmatia (till XV -XVI AD) and linguistic, archeological evidences pointing directly to the Balts.
www.netsword.com /ubb/Forum7/HTML/000313.html   (311 words)

  
 Classical Gazetteer, page 334   (Site not responding. Last check: )
of Sarmatia, dividing Sarmatia Europeea from Sarmatia Asiatics.
The boundary, in this direction, of Europe and Asia, falling into the N.e.
a town of Sarmatia Europssa, at the mouth of the Tanais.
www.ancientlibrary.com /gazetteer/0336.html   (394 words)

  
 uboat.net - Allied Ships hit by U-boats - Sarmatia (Steam merchant)
At 12.00 hours on 18 Jun, 1940, the Sarmatia (Master Anton Ratia) was stopped by a shot across her bow by U-28 and the crew immediately abandoned ship.
The U-boat had missed with one torpedo at 11.00 hours and then surfaced to stop the ship.
If you can help us with any additional information on this vessel then please contact us.
uboat.net /allies/merchants/360.html   (169 words)

  
 FanFiction.Net - My Odd Adventure, a King Arthur fanfic
I think about my answer carefully in my head, “well, because, how do I put this.
The air is to clean, and where I come from there isn’t a country called Sarmatia.” I reply.
“What do you mean there’s not a country called Sarmatia, and by what do you mean primitive?” she almost yells at me.
www.fanfiction.net /s/2593792/1   (971 words)

  
 Sarmatia, Olbia - Ancient Greek Coins - WildWinds.com
Click here for the Sarmatia, Olbia page with thumbnail images.
Horned head of river-god Borysthenes (Dnieper) left / OLBIO, battle-axe and bow in case.
Entry for Sarmatia, Olbia on the Digital Historia Numorum
www.wildwinds.com /coins/greece/sarmatia/olbia   (153 words)

  
 The Last Stand Of Sarmatia from Writhen Guitar Pro Tablature Archive - MySongBook
The Last Stand Of Sarmatia from Writhen Guitar Pro Tablature Archive - MySongBook
The aim of MSB is to transmit some useful resources for musicians that wish to improve their skills.
Use Guitar Pro to open, view and listen the tabs of MySongBook !
www.mysongbook.com /tab-tab_download-id_tablature=65516.htm   (163 words)

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