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The Sarmatians, having settled in Dacia, find …

Years: 333 - 333

The Sarmatians, having settled in Dacia, find themselves increasingly pressured by Gothic intruders and other tribes.

Answering their appeal for help, Emperor Constantine dispatches his eldest son at the head of a force that crosses the Danube and joins the Sarmatians to rout the Goths and their allies in 332—33.

The ungrateful Sarmatians, having used Rome to dispatch the Goths, begin to raid across the border into the Roman Empire.

Constantine, therefore, encourages the Goths to crush the Sarmatians, doing nothing this time to aid them.

After the Goths overwhelm the Sarmatians, who, he allows about three hundred thousand survivors to settle within the empire.