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Sarmatia

[ sahr-mey-shee-uh, -shuh ]

noun

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


Sarmatia

/ 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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  • Sar·mati·an adjective noun

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Example Sentences

Of those, a small segment, about 10 percent, were activists “ready to fight” for their New Russia or Sarmatia.

He held up a club, the weapon of choice of the Sarmatia activists.

An implicit confidence in enemies like these was one of the amiable "crimes" for which "Sarmatia fell unwept."

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

These events took place in that part of Sarmatia which looks towards the second Pannonia.

What business had Sarmatia to be fighting for liberty with a fifteen-foot pole between her and the breasts of her enemies?

Marlowe has mistaken "Sarmata," a Sarmatian, for the country Sarmatia.

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