Sarmacja - parts of history and thoughts

The name "Sarmacja" descends from the ancient tribe of Sarmatians - people of Iranic origin who used to live in the area of the dower Volga in the first part of the first millennium BC.

Claudius Ptolemeus writes in his famous "Cosmographia" among other things about European Sarmacja including the area of the Carpathians and the Vistula. Herodot used the name "Sarmatians" to call the people coming from the union of the Amazons and the Scythians.

In process of time the whole area of the Republic of Both Nations was given the name Sarmacja. Poland was called Sarmacja, its inhabitants were called Sarmatians. It simply means old - Polish culture.

Sarmatism has become the synonym of some customs as well as spiritual and mental culture of Rzeczpospolita Szlachecka (T.Ulewicz)

The nation <Sarmatians>, <Sarmatism> have entered Polish history and culture and they have become a denomination of phenomena accompanying the originating of a nation. (K. Bockenhein)

Even in the former Prussia which kept its religious and ethnic separateness strong influence of Sarmatian ideology together with fascination of the state were visible (J. Tazbir).

"We live in the age sarmatism. The land of Prussia todey brings together both Russians and Poles, Germans and Lithuanians, although traveling through this land is difficult because of the historical and social history. (...) Embedment in our region, responsible and collective shaping of the surrounding world will assure us coexistence in peace and will make us immune to extremisms. So. let us go down the road which leads to Sarmatia, the road to a land which is shining in the far distance." (D. Albrecht)