Alans

Related Category: Peoples (except New World)

or Alani: see Sarmatia.

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Sarmatia - ancient district between the Vistula River and the Caspian Sea, occupied by the Sarmatians [Lat. Sarmatae] from the 3d cent. B.C. through the 2d cent. A.D. The term is vague and is also used t...