Sarmatians

Japanese: サルマート（英語表記）Sarmatians

A nomadic horse-riding people of Iranian origin who wielded power mainly in southern Russia from the 4th century BC onwards. At one time they conquered Scythia and controlled the entire area north of the Black Sea coast (1st century BC-1st century AD). They then invaded the Roman province of Moesia (Bulgaria) and became a serious threat to the northeastern frontier of the Roman Empire. In the 3rd century, they were pushed back by the Huns who migrated from the east, and left their homeland in southern Russia. They allied with the Goths, a branch of Germanic tribes, and flooded into Western Europe, triggering the Great Migration, which significantly weakened the power of Rome, but they completely disappeared from history by the 6th century.

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Japanese:

前4世紀以降，南ロシアを中心に勢力をふるったイラン系遊牧騎馬民族。一時はスキタイを征服し，黒海北岸の全域を掌握したこともあった (前1～後1世紀) 。その後ローマ属州の下モエシア (ブルガリア) に侵入し，ローマ帝国北東辺境の重大な脅威となった。3世紀に東方から移動してきたフン民族に押され，南ロシアの故地を離れ，ゲルマン諸族の一派たるゴート人と連合し，西ヨーロッパになだれ込んで，いわゆる民族大移動を引起し，ローマの力を著しく弱めたが，6世紀には完全に歴史から姿を消した。

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