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... Sarmatians ( Jo.La. ) The Sarmatians were a people who , during the 4th centu- ry BC - 4th century AD , Occupied much of southern Euro- pean Russia and penetrated into the eastern Balkans be- yond . Sarmatian studies were in their ...
... Sarmatians ( Jo.La. ) The Sarmatians were a people who , during the 4th centu- ry BC - 4th century AD , Occupied much of southern Euro- pean Russia and penetrated into the eastern Balkans be- yond . Sarmatian studies were in their ...
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... Sarmatians were fire worshippers who sacrificed horses to their god . Scythian women were rele- gated to a life of semiseclusion ; Sarmatian women , at least in the earlier periods , however , were expected to fight in time of war , and ...
... Sarmatians were fire worshippers who sacrificed horses to their god . Scythian women were rele- gated to a life of semiseclusion ; Sarmatian women , at least in the earlier periods , however , were expected to fight in time of war , and ...
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... Sarmatians , " in E. BACON ( ed . ) , Vanished Civilisations ( 1963 ) , is a convenient introduction to the subject ; the same author's The Sarmatians ( 1970 ) , a careful and detailed sum- mary of all available archaeological evidence ...
... Sarmatians , " in E. BACON ( ed . ) , Vanished Civilisations ( 1963 ) , is a convenient introduction to the subject ; the same author's The Sarmatians ( 1970 ) , a careful and detailed sum- mary of all available archaeological evidence ...
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