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Sarmatia
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thumb|The "Second Map of Asia" (Tabula Seconda de Asia), 1467

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thumb|The "Second Map of Asia" (Tabula Seconda de Asia), 1467

In the ancient Greco-Roman world, Sarmatia was a geographic region that encompassed the western Eurasian steppe. It was inhabited by the Sarmatians, an ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sarmatia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.