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Rhoxolani were Sarmatian tribes that migrated in the 3rd and 4th century BC from the territories north of Azov Sea toward the Danube, in what is now the Baragan steppes in Romania. They are believed to be an off-shoot of Alans. Sarmatian Cataphract from Tanais: compare Pausanias description of armor (text below) Sarmatians, Sarmatae or Sauromatae (the second form is mostly used by the earlier Greek writers, the other by the later Greeks and the Romans) were a people whom Herodotus (4. ... (5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) Events Invasion of the Celts into Ireland Gauls sack Rome Kingdom of Macedon conquers Persian empire The Scythians are beginning to be absorbed into the Sarmatian people. ... The shallow Sea of Azov is clearly distinguished from the deeper Black Sea. ... Length 2,888 km Elevation of the source 1,078 m Average discharge 30 km before Passau: 580 mÂ³/s Vienna: 1,900 mÂ³/s Budapest: 2,350 mÂ³/s just before Delta: 6,500 mÂ³/s Area watershed 817,000 kmÂ² Origin Black Forest (Schwarzwald-Baar, Baden- WÃ¼rttemberg... The Baragan Plain is a plain in south-central Romania. ... The Alans or Alani were an Iranian nomadic group among the Sarmatian people, warlike nomadic pastoralists of mixed backgrounds, who spoke an Iranian language and shared, in a broad sense, a common culture. ...

They were defeated in the Crimea by Diophantus, general of Mithradates, circa 100 BC, and by the Romans on the lower Danube circa AD 60, and also under Marcus Aurelius. They are known to attack the Roman Province of Pannonia in 260; shortly afterwards contingents of Roxolani troops enter service in the Roman military. The Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Russian transliteration: Avtonomnaya Respublika Krym, Russian: ÐÐ²Ñ‚Ð¾Ð½Ð¾Ð¼Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð ÐµÑÐ¿ÑƒÐ±Ð»Ð¸ÐºÐ° ÐšÑ€Ñ‹Ð¼, Ukrainian: ÐÐ²Ñ‚Ð¾Ð½Ð¾Ð¼Ð½Ð° Ð ÐµÑÐ¿ÑƒÐ±Ð»Ñ–ÐºÐ° ÐšÑ€Ð¸Ð¼, , pronounced cry-MEE-ah in English) is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. ... For the mathematician, see Diophantus. ... The name Mithridates (more accurately, Mithradates) is derived from the Persian sun-god Mithra and the Indo-European root da, to give — i. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC - 100s BC - 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC Years: 105 BC 104 BC 103 BC 102 BC 101 BC - 100 BC - 99 BC 98 BC 97 BC 96 BC 95... Length 2,888 km Elevation of the source 1,078 m Average discharge 30 km before Passau: 580 mÂ³/s Vienna: 1,900 mÂ³/s Budapest: 2,350 mÂ³/s just before Delta: 6,500 mÂ³/s Area watershed 817,000 kmÂ² Origin Black Forest (Schwarzwald-Baar, Baden- WÃ¼rttemberg... For other uses, see number 60. ... Marcus Aurelius alabaster bust. ... Position of the Roman province of Pannonia Pannonia is an ancient country bounded north and east by the Danube, conterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. ... Events Valerian I captured by the Persian king Shapur I; Gallienus becomes sole Roman emperor. ...

This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain. Supporters contend that the Eleventh Edition of the EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica (1911) represents, in many ways, the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...

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Rhoxolani: Information from Answers.com (409 words)
	Rhoxolani were Sarmatian tribes that migrated in the 3rd and 4th century BC from the territories north of Azov Sea toward the Danube, in what is now the Baragan steppes in Romania.
	In the mid-first century AD, during the Dacian crisis, the Rhoxolani began to settle on the lower reaches of the Danube, but this was impeded by the Legio III Gallica, who attacked and destroyed a force of 9,000 Roxolanian heavy cavalry carrying baggage in 68/69.
	Tacitus (Hist.Bk1.79) describes the weight of the armor worn by the 'princes and most distinguished persons' made 'it difficult for such as have been overthrown by the charge of the enemy to regain their feet' The long two-handed kontos lance, the primary melee weapon of the Sarmatians, was unusable in these conditions.

Rhoxolani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (465 words)
	Their first recorded homeland lay between the Don and Dnieper rivers; they migrated in the 1st century BC toward the Danube, to what is now the Baragan steppes in Romania.
	Bk1.79) describes the weight of the armor worn by the 'princes and most distinguished persons' made 'it difficult for such as have been overthrown by the charge of the enemy to regain their feet' The long two-handed kontos lance, the primary melee weapon of the Sarmatians, was unusable in these conditions.
	During Trajan's Dacian Wars, the Rhoxolani at first sided with the Dacians, providing them with most of their cavalry strength, but they were defeated in the first campaign of AD101-102.

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