Sarmatia was a region of the Eurasian steppe inhabited by the Sarmatians .
5-611: Maciej Miechowita (1457–1523) used "Sarmatia" for the Black Sea region and further divided it into Sarmatia Europea, which included East Central Europe , and Sarmatia Asiatica. Filippo Ferrari (1551–1626) also divided the two. Sarmatia Asiatica ("Asiatic Sarmatia") was the name used in Ptolemy 's Geography ( c. 150 ) for a part of Sarmatia, a large region which included parts of Europe and Asia. In modern times, geographers had various views on its extent: Another part
10-666: The country, he became a professor at the Jagiellonian University, where he served as a rector eight times (1501–1519), and also twice as a deputy chancellor of the Academia. He lived in the Długosz House from 1514 to 1516. His Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis (Treatise on the Two Sarmatias) is considered the first accurate geographical and ethnographical description of Eastern Europe . It provided
15-1164: The first systematic description of the lands between the Vistula , the Don and the Caspian Sea . This work also repeated after Jan Długosz and popularised abroad the myth of Sarmatism : that Polish nobility ( szlachta ) are descendants from the ancient Sarmatians . His Chronica Polonorum ("Polish Chronicle") is the developed, larger treaty about Polish history and geography. Contra pestem sevam regimen and Conservatio sanitatis are his two printed medical treaties, about how to combat epidemics and on benefit of sanitation. He has also written other works, many of which appeared only in manuscripts and were not printed during his lifetime, like his biography of Saint John Cantius . Marek Stachowski: Miechowita's knowledge of East European languages (mainly Hungarian, Lithuanian and Tatar), based on his Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis (1517). – [in:] Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 130 (2013): 309-316. This article about
20-588: Was Sarmatia Europea ("European Sarmatia"), which was situated further west. European Sarmatia largely corresponds to what was later known as Grand Duchy of Lithuania ; later, Intermarium ; and nowadays the Three Seas Initiative . Sarmatia was present in most maps of the region from the time of Ptolemy until the end of the 18th century. Maciej Miechowita Maciej Miechowita (also known as Maciej z Miechowa, Maciej of Miechów, Maciej Karpiga, Matthias de Miechow ; 1457 – 8 September 1523)
25-584: Was a Polish Renaissance scholar, professor of Jagiellonian University , historian, chronicler, geographer, medical doctor (royal physician of king Sigismund I the Old of Poland), alchemist , astrologer and canon in Kraków . He studied at the Jagiellonian University (also known that as the Cracow Academy), obtaining his master's degree in 1479. Between 1480-1485 he studied abroad. Upon his return to
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