Iazyges

The Iazyges or Jazyges or Yaziges are one of the branches of the people sarmate, people of Iranian nomads. They are originating in the areas of the Mer of Azov and belong to the first sarmates groups to have migrated towards the west. The principal force of Iazyges lies in their cavalry.

Iazyges and Rome

Towards 20 ap JC, Iazyges is installed on the Danubian border of the Roman Empire in the basin of the Theiss with the approval of Rome which tries to carry out the surrounding of Dacie. As of the first century after JC, they maintain the commercial relations with the Romans. dynasty flavienne until IIIe century, they belong to the cruel people customers of the Romans. However the many incidents between the legions and Iazyges prove that Roman control is far d" to be effective. Under the reign of Domitien, they unite with the Germanic people to temporarily invade the Pannonia into 92. One needs the active intervention of the emperor himself to push back them. Animosity between the Daces and Iazyges has like consequence of many raids of the latter in the provinces of the Dacie Roman. Under the emperor Marc Aurèle, they again invade the Empire under the pressure of Goths which migrate towards the West and push back them against the Limes . The Roman legions must thus again intervene on banks of the Danube to push back them into 175. The conditions imposed by the emperor are extrémement hard. Iazyges must be withdrawn from the Danube and must provide 8000 auxiliary men like for the Roman cavalry. 5500 of them are sent in the island of Brittany. They are then distributed along the files , the Hadrian's Wall by groups of 500. Several archaeological discoveries testify to their presence like the funerary stele of Chester showing a rider sarmate.

Iazyges however continue to make pressure on the Danubian border. They occupy the Dacie during most of the third century. Maximien, Co-Auguste of Dioclétien finally beats them at the end of IIIe century. Constantin Ier makes it possible a great number of them to settle as farmers in Balkans

Their name disappears in the middle of the great invasion from the v° century.

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