Proper noun
Sarmatia
(historical) An ancient territory corresponding to the western part of greater Scythia (modern Ukraine, southern Russia, and the eastern Balkans).
His annexation of lands of the Marcomanni and the Jazyges – perhaps to be provincially called Marcomannia and Sarmatia Birley, 253 – was cut short in 175 by the revolt of Avidius Cassius and in 180 by his death. Source: Internet
The people having been divided and scattered, the tribe of the Khazars, from within Berulia ( Bessarabia ), which neighbors with Sarmatia, attacked them with impunity. Source: Internet
Under other classical authors this sometimes included regions of Sarmatia as well as an area under Roman control on the west bank of the Rhine. Source: Internet