Sarmatians

The Alans, Alani, Alauni or Halani were an Iranian nomadic group among the Sarmatian people, warlike nomadic pastoralists of mixed backgrounds, who spoke an Iranian language and shared, in a broad sense, a common culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alans"

In Greek mythology, the , Amazons were either an ancient legendary nation of female warriors or a contemporary land of women at the outer edges of the world. The legends appear to have a nugget of factual basis in warrior women among the Scythians, but classical Greeks never ceased to be astounded at such role-reversals. In early modern usage, the word was often used to refer to strong and independent women, in contrast to conventional stereotypes of women as weak and passive (see " damsel in distress"), but now "amazon" in such contexts has self-ironic overtones. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amazons"

Flavius Ardabur Aspar (? - 471), an Alan, was the magister militum ("Master of Soldiers") of the Byzantine Empire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aspar"

The Hamaxobians, also or Amaxobii or Amaxobians, in ancient geography, were a kind of people who had no houses or tents, but lived together in chariots. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hamaxobian"

The Iazyges (Jazyges is an orthographic variant) were a nomadic tribe. Speaking an Iranian language, they were a branch of the Sarmatian people who, c. 200 BC, swept westward from central Asia onto the steppes of what is now Ukraine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iazyges"

The kontos was the Greek name for a type of lance used by Sarmatian cavalry. It was also adopted by the cataphracts of Armenia, Parthia and the Sassanid Empire. The kontos was wielded with two hands. The Romans adopted a variation of the kontos called a contus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kontos"

Ossetic or Ossetian (in Ossetic: , Iron ăvzag) is an Iranian language spoken in Ossetia, a region on the slopes of the Caucasus mountains on the borders of Russia and Georgia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ossetic language" You've Got Questions. We've Got shortopedia. shortopedia

(Respendial) King of a group of Alans in western Europe in the early 5th century CE. ...more on Wikipedia about "Respendial"

Rhoxolani were Sarmatian tribes that migrated in the 3rd and 4th century BC from the territories north of Azov Sea toward the Danube, in what is now the Baragan steppes in Romania. Their original homeland lay between the Don and Dnieper rivers. They are believed to be an off-shoot of Alans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rhoxolani"

Sarmatians, Sarmatae or Sauromatae were a nomadic, multi-ethnic Iranian people confederacy mentioned in classical authors from Herodotus onward. They ranged at greatest reported extent from the line of the Vistula and the mouth of the Danube eastward to the Volga, and from the mysterious domain of the Hyperboreans in the north southward to the shores of the Black and Caspian seas, including the region between them as far as the Caucasus mountains. The full panoply of peoples under the aegis of the Sarmatians must have spoken many languages, most Indo-European, some not; but it is perhaps no coincidence that the boundary between the so-called centum and satem languages apparently fell at the European border of the Sarmatians. The centum speakers seem to have insisted on the distinction. The Sarmatians flourished in a timespan beginning before the earliest historical sources of Europe, and they endured until the arrival of the Huns. That event shattered whatever political unity they still had, causing their constituent peoples to go their own ways. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sarmatians"

Sarmatism was the dominant lifestyle, culture and ideology of szlachta ( nobility social class) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 16th century to 19th century. Together with Golden Liberty it formed the unique aspects of the Commonwealth culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sarmatism"

Scythian and Sarmatian are the names of the East Iranian dialects spoken by the Scythian/ Sarmatian tribes of the nomadic cattlebreeders in Southern Russia between 8th century BC and 5th century AD. Sometimes, the Scythian and Sarmatian languages are combined into one name: Scytho-Sarmatian languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Scythian languages"

Tanais, ( Greek Τάναϊς) is the ancient name for the River Don in Russia. In antiquity, it was also the name of the city situated in the Don river delta that reaches into the northeasternmost part of the Sea of Azov, which the Greeks called Lake Maeotis. The site of ancient Tanais is situated about 30 km west of modern Rostov on Don. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tanais"

Tasius is the name given by Strabo to the king of the Rhoxolani, a Sarmatian tribal group. Around 100 BCE, Tasius led an invasion of the Crimea in support of the Scythian warlord Palacus. He was defeated by the Pontian general Diophantus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tasius"

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