Roxolani
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.5|The Roman empire under Hadrian (ruled 117–138), showing the location of the Roxolani Sarmatians in the [[Wallachian plain (Romania)]] The Roxolani or Rhoxolāni ( , ; ) were a Sarmatian people documented between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD, first east of the Borysthenes (Dnieper) on the coast of Lake Maeotis (Sea of Azov), and later near the borders of Roman Dacia and Moesia. They are believed to be an offshoot of the Alans.
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- Name
- Geography
- History
- 1st century BC
- 1st century AD
- 2nd century
- 3rd century
- 4th century
- Culture
- Legacy
- See also
- References
- Sources
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thumb|upright=1.5|The Roman empire under Hadrian (ruled 117–138), showing the location of the Roxolani Sarmatians in the [[Wallachian plain (Romania)]] The Roxolani or Rhoxolāni ( , ; ) were a Sarmatian people documented between the 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD, first east of the Borysthenes (Dnieper) on the coast of Lake Maeotis (Sea of Azov), and later near the borders of Roman Dacia and Moesia. They are believed to be an offshoot of the Alans.
==Name== Scholars generally interpret the Latin name as representing a compound formed with the Alanic root * (modern Ossetian or 'light, luminous'; Avestan and Persian , 'luminous, shining') attached to the tribal name Alān. This would make Roxolani an endonym translatable as the 'luminous Alans' or the 'shining Alans'. The name could be linked to aspects of worship or to the supernatural, as suggested by the modern Ossetian expression ('may you be blessed'), addressed to the deceased, or by the name Wacyrūxs ('divine light'), mentioned in the Nart sagas.''