According to the map of
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa transmitted by
Pliny the Elder in the late 1st century BCE, Sarmatia and Scythia Taurica were the countries between the
Dnipro, the
Volga and
Ciscaucasia; and
Pomponius Mela in the 1st century CE described Sarmatia as a large country found between the
Vistula and the
Ister. Claudius Ptolemy divided Sarmatia into two parts: European Sarmatia and Asiatic Sarmatia.
European Sarmatia European Sarmatia (), bounded by the Vistula and the
Sarmatian Mountains in the west; the
Maeotian Sea and the
river Tanais in the east; the territory of the
Iazyges,
Dacia and the
Pontus Euxinus in the south; and the
Venedicus Bay of the
Sarmatian Ocean and part of an unknown land in the north.
Asiatic Sarmatia Asiatic Sarmatia (), bounded by European Sarmatia in the west; Scythia and part of the
Caspian Sea in the east; the states of the
Caucasus in the south; and an unknown land in the north. ==See also==