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Sarmatia
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Sarmatia was a region of the Eurasian steppe inhabited by the Sarmatians.
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Maciej Miechowita (1457–1523) used "Sarmatia" for the Black Sea region and further divided it into Sarmatia Europea, which included East Central Europe, and Sarmatia Asiatica.[1] Filippo Ferrari (1551–1626) also divided the two.