Scythia
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Scythia or Scythica was a geographic region defined in the ancient Graeco-Roman world that encompassed the Pontic steppe. It was inhabited by Scythians, an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic pe
The maximum extent of Pontic Scythia.
Sarmatians
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The Sarmatians were a large confederation of ancient Iranian equestrian nomadic peoples who dominated the Pontic steppe from around the 5th century BC to the 4th century AD.
Scythia
…original home around Lake Maeotis, and into the Carpathian region. Beginning in the late 4th century BCE, another related nomadic Iranic people, the Sarmatians, moved from the east into the Pontic steppe, where they replaced the Scythians as the dominant power of the Pontic steppe. Due to the Sarmatian invasion…
Sarmatian cataphracts depicted on Trajan's Column, 2nd century CE.
Reconstruction of early Sarmatian chieftain. Araltobe kurgan, Kazakhstan, III-II c. BC. Excavation of Z. Samashev.
Gold mirror, Mayerovsky III Kurgan 4 (Nikolaevsky District, Volgograd region), 2nd-1st centuries BC.
Sarmatian bottle and lid (1st century AD, reproduction)