SARMATIA




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Sarmatia. - That part of Europe which lay east of Germania and north of the immeadiate vicinity of the Danube was known by the Romans, and inscribed on their coins, and the inhabitants were called Sarmatae and Sauromatae.  These barbarous and almost unknown tribes also occupied the vast tracts of territory now called Russia.

SARMATIA. - This word appears at the bottom of a coin (gold and silver) of Constantinus II., which bears on its reverse the legend GAVDIVM ROMANORVM, with the type of a trophy, near which a woman sits in a sorrowful attitued.

Similar medals are extant both of the father of the above Emperor and of his brother Crispus, but those are inscribed ALAMANNIA or FRANCIA, and never SARMATIA. - See GAVDIVM ROMANORVM.


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