Sarmatia

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Sarmatia, and Sauromatia. This vast Region, in ancient Geography, was divided into Sarmatia Asiatica, Europaea, and Germanica. Sarmatia Asiatica, lay properly towards the Borders of Europe and Asia; with the Northern Ocean to the North, the Pontus Euxinus to the South, Scythia to the East, and Sarmatia Europaea to the West: now contained in the Northern Muscovia, in the Provinces of Samoyeda, Duina, Permski, Lucomeria, &c. Sarmatia Europea had for Bounds, both the other Sarmatia's, with the Euxine Sea; making now Russia. And Sarmatia Germanica took up the greatest part of the present Kingdom of Poland: being divided from the European Sarmatia, by the Nieper to the East; from the Borders of Germany by the Vistula to the West; from Dacia by the Neister and the Carpathian Mountains to the South, with the Baltick Sea and the Gulph of Finland to the North.