Chibirov A.L. Sarmatian Saga of Tadeusz Sulimirski. Print

These days in the European historiography there is a renewed interest in Sarmatians, their history and cultural heritage. Mysterious tribes of Sarmatians, who left their mark in European culture, always stirred imagination of European researches, who attempted to define cultural and ethnic continuity between the Iranian-speaking Nomads and European nations. This is partly due to the fact that some European peoples, especially the Poles, consider themselves to be the successors of Great Sarmatia, which, according to authors of the Antiquity, was located in the territory of what is now Eastern Europe. The first to write the most complete work on Sarmatians and their heritage was a Polish researcher T. Sulimirski. In the book titled «The Sarmatians» the whole bright palette of history of these peoples, their heritage in the history of Europe were presented. For the first time in the modern European history on the basis of the rich factual material the author investigated all stages of Sarmatian’s organization as of a tribal community, starting with the first records about them in the historical chronicles. The present article dwells upon a critical analysis of T. Sulimirski’s book in terms of the main tenets of the Soviet and Russian historiography.

Keywords: Sarmatians, Sauromatians, Alans, Iazyges, Aorsi, Siraks, Sulimirski, Bachrach.


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