Magog " land of Gog " ( sons were Elichanaf and Lubal )-also Gog, Gogh, Magug, Magogae, Mugogh, Mat Gugi, Gugu, Gyges, Bedwig, Moghef, Magogian, Massagetae, Dacae, Sacae, Scyth, Scythi, Scythia, Scythae, Sythia, Scythes, Skuthai, Skythai, Scythia, Skythia, Scynthia, Scynthius, Sclaveni, Sarmatian, Scoloti, Skodiai, Scotti, Skoloti, Skoth-ai, Skoth, Skuthes, Skuth-a, Askuza, Askuasa, Alani, Alans, Alanic, Ulan, Uhlan also Rasapu, Rashu, Rukhs, Rukhs-As, Rhos, Ros, Rosh, Rox, Roxolani, Rhoxolani, Ruskolan, Rosichi, Rhossi, Rusichi, Rus, Ruska, Rossiya, Russian ( Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians ); also Mas-ar, Mas-gar, Masgar, Mazar, Madj, Madjar, Makr-on, Makar, Makaroi, Merkar, Magor, Magar, Magyar, Mohgur ( Hungarians-also Hungar, Hunugur, Hurri, Gurri, Onogur, Ugor, Ungar, Uhor, Venger ); Siberians, Croats, Serbs, Slovenes, Slovaks, Bulgars, Poles, Czechs, and other related groups );

During Trajan's Dacian Wars, the Roxolani at first sided with the Dacians, providing them with most of their cavalry strength, but they were defeated in the first campaign of AD 101-102.

Like other Sarmatian peoples, the Roxolani were conquered by the Huns in the mid-4th century.

In addition, it appears that some unoccupied parts of the dava zone were overrun, either before or during the Dacian Wars, by Sarmatian tribes ; for example, eastern Wallachia, which had fallen under the Roxolani by AD 68.

Furthermore, some areas were occupied after 106 by nomadic Sarmatian tribesmen, most likely a minority ruling over the sedentary Geto-Dacian majority e. g. Muntenia ( eastern Wallachia ), which was ruled by the Roxolani Sarmatians and possibly also northern Moldavia, which was under the Costoboci, identified as a Sarmatian tribe by the Roman scientist Pliny the Elder.

AD 5-20, says the Bastarnae are " of Germanic stock ", although he includes the non-Germanic Roxolani, a Sarmatian tribe, among the sub-tribes of the Bastarnae ( probably in error ).

In the late 2nd century, the Historia Augusta mentions that in the rule of Marcus Aurelius ( 161-80 ), an alliance of lower Danube tribes including the Bastarnae, the Sarmatian Roxolani and the Costoboci took advantage of the emperor's difficulties on the upper Danube ( the Marcomannic Wars ) to invade Roman territory.

Short time after his victory, he was killed by a coalition of his own people and of the Roxolani.

* 260 – Regalianus-After his victory over the Sarmatians in 260, he was killed by a coalition of his own people and of the Roxolani.

A number of Russian anti-Normanist historians, such as Dmitry Ilovaisky, have linked the Roxolani with the Slavic Rus, who appeared in Eastern Europe some four centuries after the disappearance of the Roxolani.

The area fell into the hands of foederati such as the Sarmatians ( Iazyges, Roxolani, Limigani ) and later the Goths, who also took control of other parts of Dacia.

By AD 139, the geographer Ptolemy writes that the " Huni " ( Χοῦνοι or Χουνοἰ ) are between the Bastarnae and the Roxolani in the Pontic area under the rule of Suni.

They are known to have attacked the Roman Province of Pannonia in 260 ; shortly afterwards contingents of Roxolani troops entered Roman military service.

Numerous non-Dacian peoples, both sedentary and nomadic, the Scytho-Sarmatian Roxolani and Agathyrsi, Germanic / Celtic Bastarnae and Celtic Anartes, are attested to in the ancient sources and in the archaeological record as inhabiting this region.

After some success against the Sarmatians, his revolt was put down by the invasion of Roxolani into Pannonia and Regalianus himself was killed when the invaders took the important city of Sirmium.

There is a suggestion that Gallienus invited Roxolani against Regalianus but other historians dismiss the accusation.

Strabo in the 1st century names as the main tribes of the Sarmatians the Iazyges, the Roxolani, the Aorsi and the Siraces.

In the mid-1st century AD, the Roxolani began incursions across the Danube into Roman territory.

The Roxolani avenged themselves in AD 92, when they joined the Dacians in destroying the Roman Legio XXI Rapax.

The creation of the Roman province of Dacia brought Roman power to the very doorstep of Roxolani territory.

The Emperor Hadrian reinforced a series of pre-existing fortifications and built numerous forts along the Danube to contain the Roxolani threat.

Later, Marcus Aurelius also campaigned against the Roxolani along the Danubian frontier.

In Classical antiquity, Budjak was inhabited by Tyragetae, Bastarnae, Scythians and Roxolani.

Another explanation is that the name originated from the Iranian Alanic tribe of Jassi.

" Alanic graves in the Volga region dating to the 3rd to 4th century CE signal the adoption of the Qum-Darya type by Sarmatian peoples from Hunnic groups advancing from the East.

The Alanic language as spoken by the Alans from about the 5th to the 11th centuries AD formed a dialect directly descended from the earlier Scytho-Sarmatian languages, and forming in its turn the ancestor of the Ossetic language.

Also unclear is their origin ; many historians regard them as deriving from Khwarazm, but some scholars point to the fact that " As " is the Turkic term for Alans and believe that the Arsiyah were Alanic in origin.

At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.

In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.

They lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.

bright flowers from the trumpet vine that made `` gloves '' on the ends of ten waggling fingers.

After these treatments the conjugate did not stain healthy or crown gall sweet clover tissues or stained them a very faint green which was easily distinguishable from the bright yellow-green specific staining.

Muller, nakedly exposed at the bright window like a deer pinned in a car's headlights, threw down the rifle and turned to jump from the table ; ;

The large municipal hall was ablaze with color, which shown out from the bright array of chic ballgowns worn by those participating in the `` maskers' dances ''.

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

The women had a bright shining expectancy as they leaned out from the wall and gazed splendidly into the distance, while the men were stern but hopeful.

There were new yellow curtains, bright as a child's life ought to be, a new bedspread, lively with hopping rabbits, and hanging from the ceiling was an airy Mother Goose Mobile, spinning slowly in the breeze.

He was a bright and handsome young man from New York, who worked for the same steel company as John did.

The deceased get help from different Buddhas who show them the path to the bright light.

Many stars visible to the naked eye have such a low absolute magnitude that they would appear bright enough to cast shadows if they were only 10 parsecs from the Earth: Rigel (− 7. 0 ), Deneb (− 7. 2 ), Naos (− 6. 0 ), and Betelgeuse (− 5. 6 ).

How bright is the Moon from Earth?

The iris is a sphincter formed from pigmented tissue that contracts when the eye is exposed to bright light, to protect the retina by limiting the amount of light passing through the pupil.

Eta Bootis, or Muphrid, is only 3. 3 light years distant from Arcturus, and would have a visual magnitude-2½, whereas an observer on the former system would find Arcturus as bright as Venus as seen from Earth.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

In addition to the deep chestnut colour of their coats, they have bright white stripes on their sides to help camouflage them from their enemies.

The other bright stars in Capricornus range in magnitude from 3. 1 to 5. 1. α Capricorni is a multiple star also known as Algedi or Giedi.

About 50 million light-years from Earth, M77 is also a Seyfert galaxy and thus a bright object in the radio spectrum.

Astronomers estimated that the visible fragments of SL9 ranged in size from a few hundred metres to two kilometres across, suggesting that the original comet may have had a nucleus up to acrosssomewhat larger than Comet Hyakutake, which became very bright when it passed close to the Earth in 1996.

It is rooted in Indoeuropean * d ( e ) y ( e ) w, meaning bright sky or daylight, from which also derived the name of Vedic god Dyaus and the Latin deus, ( god ) and dies ( day, daylight ).

In Ovid's version of the story, Dryope was wandering by a lake, suckling her baby Amphissus, when she saw the bright red flowers of the lotus tree, formerly the nymph Lotis who, when fleeing from Priapus, had been changed into a tree.