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Sauromatia

Sauromatia is the alternative spelling of Sarmatia.

Meaning of Sarmatia

Proper noun

Sarmatia

  1. (historical) An ill-defined ancient geographic region of Eastern Europe occupied by the nomadic Sarmatians, generally considered to include modern Ukraine, southern Russia, Belarus, parts of Lithuania as well as Poland as far west as the Vistula River.
    • The southeastern part of Sarmatia between the Thanais (now Don) and Caucasus, was then called Asiatic Sarmatia, and was, before the arrival of the Huns, occupied by the Alani, renowned for their excellent cavalry.1854, Adolph Ludvig Kœppen, The World in the Middle Ages: An Historical Geography, page 24

Questions about Sauromatia

What is Sauromatia the alternative spelling of?
Sauromatia is the alternative spelling of Sarmatia.

Words near Sauromatia in the dictionary

  1. saurology
  2. saurolophid
  3. saurolophids
  4. saurolophine
  5. saurolophines
  6. Sauromatia
  7. Sauromatian
  8. Sauromatians
  9. Sauromatic
  10. Sauron
  11. Sauronesque

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sauromatia (page history and authors); Sarmatia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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