SARMATIAN RELIGION. The Sarmatians were Iranian-speaking nomadic tribes that formed in the middle of the first millennium BCE in the southern Urals. In the last centuries before the common era they spread from there in a westward direction—to...

The Sarmatians, Sarmatae or Sauromatae (Old Iranian Sarumatah 'archer'[1]) were a people originally of Iranian stock[2][1]. Mentioned by classical authors, they migrated from Central Asia to the Ural Mountains around 5th century B.C. and eventually...