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Originally Posted by Mynydd
I didn't know that Rome dispatched Sarmatians to Hispania like Manji says.
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There are two historical instances when sarmatians came to Iberia.
The first one was in the first century AD, when a large detachment of sarmatian warriors were dispatched to the Peninsula to serve as scouts/light cavalry.
The second one was around 400 AD.
In the Iberian peninsula the Alans (a sarmatian tribe) settled in Lusitania and the East/South provinces, "Alani Lusitaniam et Carthaginiensem provincias". They became known in retrospect for their massive hunting and fighting dogs, which they apparently introduced to Europe. A giant breed of dog still called
Alano survives in the Basque Country.
Modern genetic science's disclosure of the geographical distribution of historical genetic markers has convinced most theorists of the connection between Sarmatian ancestral heritage in Europe and Haplogroup G, specifically G2.
Some data from different studies:
"The Sarmatians of various tribes comprised the only group from the eastern edge of Europe known to have settled in western Europe almost 2,000 years ago in significant numbers to still be a noticeable part of the population in DNA studies in all the countries they settled. Their genetic profile, therefore, should necessarily be different from the native R and I profiles. While the Sarmatians are known to have had settlements in Britain, Holland, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria and Switzerland in the western half of the continent, only in France is a population figure from that migration period known. The Sarmatians were there at least 35,000 persons—thus two percent or more of the estimated population then."
in "YHRD - Semino, 2000"
Map of Europe Showing Approximate Percentages of Haplogroup G by Location
Source: YHRD database