From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Message: 2210
Date: 2000-04-26
>I thought Sarmatians were latter day Scythians?
> At 15:05 2000-04-26 +0200, you wrote:
> > Certainly, but the archaeological evidence points to
> >Scythian raids rather than prolonged visits, not to mention stable
> >settlement. Such events could hardly have left any traces in the
> >toponymy of the lands in question.
> >
> > Yes of course, it was just a polemical hyberbole. But I didn't mention
> >rivers west to the Ukrainian/South Russian steppe.
> >
> Note however that the Iazyges of the Tisza plain were a Sarmatian tribe, so
> Iranian placenames might be found at least as far as Budapest if not
> Berlin....
>
> Tommy Tyrberg
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