Babai, King of the Sarmatians

“The History of the Sarmatians” < link >

In the Hungarian plain remained some Sarmatians after the Huns had gone. In the year 470 was their last known raid under their leader Babai when they again crossed the Danube and invaded Pannonia Secunda and conquered Singidunum (Belgrade).

The Eastern Roman emperor Leo I sent Theodoric a later Western Roman Emperor, to the Huns and he expelled them and killed Babai. In 568 followed some of the last Sarmatians of the Danube the Lombards and participated in the conquest of Italy and settled there in several colonies in the Po Valley.

“Iordanes Getarum,” MGH Auct. ant. V.1, p. 131 < PDF >

277. LIV. The kings [of the Suavi], Hunimund and Alaric, fearing the destruction that had come upon the Sciri, next made war upon the Goths, relying upon the aid of the Sarmatians, who had come to them as auxili- aries with their kings Beuca and Babai. They summoned the last remnants of the Sciri, with Edica and Hunuulf, their chieftains, thinking they would fight the more des- perately to avenge themselves. They had on their side the Gepidae also, as well as no small reenforcements from the race of the Rugi and from others gathered here and there. Thus they brought together a great host at
278 the river Bolia in Pannonia and encamped there. …

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282. LV. … Now Theodoric had reached man’s estate, for he was eighteen years of age and his boyhood was ended. So he summoned certain of his father’s adherents and took to himself from the people his friends and retainers—almost six thousand men. With these he crossed the Danube, without his father’s knowledge, and marched against Babai, king of the Sar- matians, who had just won a victory over Camundus, a general of the Romans, and was ruling with insolent pride. Theodoric came upon him and slew him, and taking as booty his slaves and treasure, returned vic- torious to his father. Next he invaded the city of Singi- dunum, which the Sarmatians themselves had seized, and did not return it to the Romans, but reduced it to his own sway.

Ethnic Caucasia

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethnic_Caucasia-en.png cites The Ethnic Map of Caucasus V - IV B.C.,, (fragment of the Ethnic Map of Europe V - IV B.C.), "The World History", Vol.2, 1956 г., Russia, Moscow, Autors: A. Belyavsky, L. Lazarevich, A. Mongait. and Gocha Tsetskhladze (éd.), Greek Colonisation. An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, 2 volumes, Leyde ; Boston, Brill, 2006 et 2008, 584 et 566 p. <. link >

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References

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmatians The Sarmatians were a large confederation of ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic peoples of classical antiquity who dominated the Pontic steppe from about the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD.
2. What is the Sarmatian theory? At its core was the unifying belief that the people of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth descended from the ancient Iranian Sarmatians, the legendary invaders of contemporary Polish lands in antiquity.