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Roxolani

The Roxolani were a Sarmatian people, who are believed to be an offshoot of the Alans, although according to Strabo they were the most remote of Scythian peoples.

Usage examples of "roxolani".

Pontus possessed all of the Tauric Chersonnese, huge Roxolani territory to the west, and the Greek city of Olbia, much reduced by constant Sarmatian-Roxolani incursions.

He was going to go right round the top end of the Euxine and down through the lands of the Roxolani to the mouth of the Danubius.

The Roxolani always strove to make as savage a first impression as they could.

If the locals had nerve enough, they could hit the Roxolani just as the latter were coming out of their ship, and cause all sorts of trouble.

The Roxolani lowered the smoldering cords to the touchholes of their muskets.

Christ, from what the Roxolani say, races that scarcely know how to work iron fly starships and never think twice about it.

But what kind of fight could the Roxolani or anyone else at their level of technology put up against us?

Oyag, the most widely spoken language on a planet the Roxolani had conquered fifty years before.

His object being merely to preserve the boundaries of the empire, he concluded a peace with the Roxolani, and probably purchased their submission.

One of the chiefs of the Roxolani had formerly deserted the standard of Hermanric, and the cruel tyrant had condemned the innocent wife of the traitor to be torn asunder by wild horses.