Barry Cunlife - The Scythians

scythians in the longue durée
by the middle
of the century
raids began again, lasting
to the end of the century, when
the arrival of the Huns in the Great
Hungarian Plain in ad 430 brought
Sarmatian power to an end.
That the Sarmatian Iazyges were able
to maintain their identity for more than
four hundred years is remarkable, but
the steppe land of Hungary was a familiar
environment that suited their mobile
lifestyle while the presence of the Roman
province of Pannonia just across the Danube
provided opportunities for both trade and
12.6 Funerary monument from the Roman fortress of Chester, England, showing a Sarmatian auxiliary
clad in scale armour. He may be one of the 5,500 Sarmatians who were sent to Britain in the late second
century ad.
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