Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis by Matthias Miechovita as a Source for the Historical Ethnography of the Northern Black Sea Region Cover Image

«Трактат о двух Сарматиях» Мацея Меховского как источник по исторической этнографии Северного Причерноморья
Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis by Matthias Miechovita as a Source for the Historical Ethnography of the Northern Black Sea Region

Author(s): K.Ju Rahno
Subject(s): Historical Geography, Ethnohistory, History of ideas, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century
Published by: Нижневартовский государственный университет
Keywords: History; historiography; ethnology; Matthias Miechovita; the Alans; the Goths; the Khazarians; the Circassians; the Ruthenians; Cossacks, the Crimea; Caucasus; Ukraine; Poland

Summary/Abstract: Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis by Matthias Miechovita as a Source for the Historical Ethnography of the Northern Black Sea Region. In the sixteenth century the work of Matthias Miechovita, Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis, Asiana et Europiana, et de contends in eis, printed for the first time in Krakow in 1517, was very well known and had many editions. It consists a lot of information on the contemporary non-Tatar population of steppes of the Northern Black Sea region, including the Alans, the Goths, the Khazarians, the Circassians, and the Ruthenians. The problem of the origin of Ukrainian Cossacks could not be analyzed without the facts from the work of this Polish scientist as well