Sarmatia

American  

[sahr-mey-shee-uh, -shuh] / sɑrˈmeɪ ʃi ə, -ʃə /

noun

1. the ancient name of a region in E Europe, between the Vistula and the Volga.

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Sarmatia British  

/ sɑːˈmeɪʃɪə /

noun

1. the ancient name of a region between the Volga and Vistula Rivers now covering parts of Poland, Belarus, and SW Russia

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Other Word Forms

• Sarmatian adjective

Example Sentences

The two Polonaises recapture the heroic and sorrowing spirit of Sarmatia.

From Project Gutenberg

Militi eum percontanti, quum portas intraret dixit, se apud Nasorum promontorium fuisse, Francofurtum proficisci, et Argentoratum, transitu ad fines Sarmatiæ mensis intervallo, reversurum.

From Project Gutenberg

Campbell's poetic offerings to the cause of Polish liberty are in the school-books of two continents, and have fired the indignation of two generations of youthful orators at that great European felony, the partition of Poland, when "Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime."

From Project Gutenberg

Sarmatian, s�r-mā′shi-an, adj. pertaining to the race who spoke the same language as the Scythians, and who are believed to have been of Median descent and so Iranian in stock, though some authorities think they belonged to the Ural-Altaic family: Polish, the term Sarmatia being sometimes rhetorically applied to Poland.

From Project Gutenberg

From Sarmatia, however, must be separated, on account of their natural situation, the great Danubian countries, extending from the South of the Carpathian mountains, down to the other mountainous chain northward of Greece—such as the ancient Illyricum, Pannonia and Dacia—regions which, in a strict geographical point of view, must be regarded as forming a distinct class.

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