DANUBIUS SARMATAS AC ROMANA DISTERMINET
DANUBIUS SARMATAS AC ROMANA DISTERMINET

Summary/Abstract: The sketchy characterization of the Iazyges, given by Ammianus, only becomes clear and can be evaluated indeed, when we compare it with the data and descriptions concerning the tactics of the Hungarian warriors defending the border fortresses against the Turks in the Age of the Turk conquest. Even though the geopolitic and social situation of the Hungarian border fortresses at that age was entirely different from those of the Iazyges, but their conditions of life were similar. For lack of regular pay and supply the warriors of the border fortresses were living on maraudings organized against the Turks. This required similar maraudings executed by light cavalry, as the incursions of the Iazyges into the territory of the Roman provinces. Thus, the latter become clear just by the help of the much better known maraudings of the Hungarian warriors defending the border fortresses.

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