Information AboutRoxolani |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT RHOXOLANI | |
| ancient roman enemies | |
| ancient peoples of russia | |
| iranian peoples | |
| sarmatians | |
| eurasian nomads | |
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The Greco - Roman historian Strabo (late first century BC-early first century AD) described them as " Wagon -dwellers" (i.e. Nomad s) (''Geographika,'' Book VII). Around 100 BC they invaded the Crimea under their king Tasius in support of the Scythian warlord Palacus but were defeated in the Crimea by Diophantus , general of Mithradates VI . In the mid-first century AD, during the Dacia n crisis, the Rhoxolani begun to settle on the lower reaches of the Danube, but this was impeded by the Legio III Gallica , who attacked and destroyed a force of 9,000 Roxolanian heavy cavalry carrying baggage in 68/69. Tacitus (Hist.Bk1.79) describes the weight of the Armor worn by the 'princes and most distinguished persons' made 'it difficult for such as have been overthrown by the charge of the enemy to regain their feet' The long two-handed Kontos Lance , the primary Melee Weapon of the Sarmatians, was unusable in these conditions. The Rhoxolani avenged themselves on the Romans in c.92, when they joined the Dacians in destroying the Roman Legio XXI Rapax . Trajan subdued the Rhoxolani , along with the Iazyges , during his conquest of Dacia. The Rhoxolani regained their independence upon his death. The Emperor Hadrian reinforced a series of pre-existing Fortifications (and built numerous new Fort s) along the Danube to contain the Rhoxolani threat. Marcus Aurelius also campaigned against them along the Danubian frontier. They are known to have attacked the Roman Province of Pannonia in 260 ; shortly afterwards contingents of Roxolani troops enter service in the Roman military. Like other Sarmatian peoples, the Rhoxolani were conquered by the Huns in the mid fourth century. RESOURCES
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