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Hi everyone,

researching sarmatians on the internet is unreliable. I think consulting professional academics is the right thing to do. There are a number of good authors on the subject, Paul magocsi (Toronto university), Vernadsky(YALE), Norman Davies(Oxford) and Neal Ascherson among others.

Another thing that everyone has overlooked. The Antae federation(100AD-600'sAD). It occupied the entire Ukraine and parts of Russia and Belarus. This was controlled and organised by Alans in the late Sarmatian period. The Alans either became slavicized or were superceded by slavs. Antae are a sarmatian group and the name Antae in Iranian means edge or frontier. Also around that time on the Elbe, another alan group known as Serbs took control of the Sklaveni and established the kingdom of White Serbia. several important east slavic tribes evolved out of the Antae; Severians, Polianians, Derevlians, Tvertsy, Ulichi, Dulebians and White Croats.

Croat also seems to be a slavicized Alan name and archaeological evidence supports the presence of alanic chorouats in nearby Russia. Sarmatian tribal leagues or federations at this point seem to include a strong slavic element. East and southern slavs were presented as Sarmatians at that point in time. The slavic world was called European Sarmatia up to the 18th century.

polish people at this time (600's AD) were known as Wends but kingdom of White Croatia and White Serbia was located in southern Polish territory. That may proove a connection between Sarmatians and Poland. Also, from the 1300's, the Poland-Lithuania commonwealth included the entire former territory of the Antae and its tribes. The connection with Sarmatians and Poland is not entirely fanciful. It's not about that stupid sarmatism movement either.

Earliest Sarmatians were the Roxolani, Iazyges and Alans. The iazyges merged with kipchaks of Hungary. So far, the connection between roxolani and ros is not thoroughly substantiated.