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Sarmatia
Sign in to savethumb|The "Second Map of Asia" (Tabula Seconda de Asia), 1467
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical country
- Continent
- Europe
- Shares border with
- Ancient Rome
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- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- category of associated people
- Category:Sarmatians
- Commons category
- Sarmatia
- inception
- 0400-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0400-00-00
- different from
- Sarmatian
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Geography
- European Sarmatia
- Asiatic Sarmatia
- See also
- References
- Sources
thumb|The "Second Map of Asia" (Tabula Seconda de Asia), 1467
In the ancient Greco-Roman world, Sarmatia was a geographic region that encompassed the western Eurasian steppe. It was inhabited by the Sarmatians, an ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sarmatia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.