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Aorsi
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thumb|right|400px|The Eastern Hemisphere in 100 BC. The Alans/Aorsi are located immediately north of the [[Caspian Sea.]]

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thumb|right|400px|The Eastern Hemisphere in 100 BC. The Alans/Aorsi are located immediately north of the [[Caspian Sea.]]

The Aorsi, known in Greek sources as the Aorsoi (Ἄορσοι), were an ancient Iranian people of the Sarmatian group, who played a major role in the events of the Pontic Steppe from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aorsi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.