In a 2014 book entitled Latinitas in the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Its Impact on the Development of Identities, Giovanna Siedina wrote the following about the influence of Iranian Sarmatians:

During 15^th century, “the Lithuanian and Polish Jagiellonian dynasty, the most important for centuries in Central and Eastern Europe, sought to create a single state which also included the Kingdom of Hungary and which would bring together even if for a short time Slavic and non Slavic peoples from the Adriatic to the Baltic seas and extend eastwards to act jointly as a bulwark for Christendom. This is not the right place to expand on the extraordinary renewal of classical culture between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that led not only to this culture being assimilated into the Polish-Lithuanian respublica, but also to a complex process of identity from which several nations would then develop. An important key to these developments was a sense of being heirs and descendants of the ancient Sarmatian knights, who embodied the ideals of both the medieval knight and those of the ancient warlike civilization described in the classics.”

Yet, mainstream history educational sources OMIT or FAIL TO IDENTIFY Iranian peoples such as Sarmatians … people are doomed when history is erased—something that is new to unsuspecting Americans… 

[pic pinterest: Sarmatian helmet…for educational purposes only]