Roxolani = Russians?

[Michael Kerr]

Roxolani & other Sarmatian groups as well as Scythians lived in Ukraine/Crimea rather than Russia so maybe there are traces of Roxolani blood in a lot of Ukrainians. Ottoman sultan Suleiman the magnificent's wife Roxelana, future mother of Selim II was Ukrainian. I always thought that pressure from other Sarmatian tribes pushed the Roxolani into Wallachia & lower Danube & possibly into Hungary. Fellow RAT member Alanus knows his Roxolani/Alans so maybe he might be able to help but because of the nature of their lifestyle being cattle & horse breeders & following their herds they moved around & I don't think lived in Russia so I don't think there is a connection. I am not sure what "rox" meant but I think it refers to light or fair. Roxolani = fair,light or Shining Alans. I think by the time the Rus appeared on the scene via the Dnieper River, the Roxolani would have either moved on to Wallachia & Hungary or assimilated with other groups like Goths & Alans or maybe over generations a lot gave up their nomadic ways & lived a more sedentary lifestyle. It's funny how the Romans made a distinction between Iazyges & Roxolani up to Marcomannic wars but from then on lumped them together as Sarmatae so I think a lot of Roxolani moved to Hungary mixing with Iazyges filling the vacuum left by peace treaty with Marcus Aurelius where he demanded 8000 Iazyges horsemen to fight for Rome in 175 AD. They continued to trouble Rome for centuries.

ROXOLANOI A tribe probably deriving their name from the proto-Iranian Raokhshna, or “shining”.

Interesting that Alexander the Great's wife was Roxana & she was daughter of A Bactrian chief or king.

Btw Harry Turtledove's short story "Road Not Taken" set in 2039 features Roxolani as aliens fighting humanity & attempting to conquer Earth which is probably what the Romans thought of the real Roxolani. I apologise for straying off topic.
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Michael Kerr