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Sarmatians
People originally of Iranian stock who migrated from Central Asia to the Ural Mtns. in the 6th-4th cent. BC and settled in S European Russia and the E Balkans. Closely related to the Scythians, they were expert horsemen and warriors and gained wide influence through administrative and political astuteness. Women fought alongside men and may have inspired Greek tales of Amazons. By the 5th cent. BC they controlled the land between the Urals and the Don, and by the 2nd cent. they had conquered the Scythians to rule almost all S Russia. Allied with Germanic tribes, they continued to pose a threat to the West until the 1st cent. AD. After invading Dacia and the lower Danube, they were overrun by the Goths. Many joined the Gothic invasion of W Europe. Sarmatia was destroyed by Huns after AD 370. Their descendants cannot be traced after the 5th cent.
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