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The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius sends 5500 Sarmatian warriors to Britain. An eight-thousand-strong detachment of Iazygean cavalry was accepted into the Roman army, with 5500 Sarmatian horsemen sent to serve in Britain to guard the land between the Antonine Wall and Hadrian's Wall against Pictish invasions. According to some scholars, such as Georges Dumézil, it was these Sarmatians who were the source of the Celtic myths about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table ^[1].

Notes:

^[1] Scythians and Narts. Dumézil 1988

King of the Abasgians. Confirmed in power by the Roman emperor Hadrian (117–138 AD).

The Abasgians occupied a central geographical position (between the Machara and Psou rivers) between the Abkhazian tribes of the Sanigi (to the west) and the Apsilae (to the east). It was around the Abasgians that related ethnic groups later consolidated into a single Abkhazian nationality.

At this time, in Sebastopolis, located in the land of the Abasgians, there was a Roman garrison. The city was formerly called by the Greek name Dioscurias, but with the arrival of Roman rule, it was renamed in honor of the Roman emperor Augustus, who had the epithet "Sebastos" ("Majestic").

In 137 AD, on the orders of Emperor Hadrian, the legate Flavius Arrian, the Roman governor of Cappadocia, made an inspection trip to the eastern shores of the Black Sea. Familiarizing himself with the state of the Roman fortifications and the arrangement of the garrisons, he also visited Sebastopolis, about which he reports in particular: "We arrived in Sebastopolis before noon... Therefore, on the same day we managed to pay the soldiers' wages, inspect the horses... the sick and the grain supplies, and go around the wall and the ditch... Sebastopolis was formerly called Dioscurias, a colony of Miletus... The fortress of Dioscurias represents the final point of Roman rule on the right side from the entrance to Pontus."

In 1896, in Sukhum, a fragment of a slab with a Latin inscription was found, in which Emperor Hadrian and Flavius Arrian are mentioned. This find confirms Roman rule on the Abkhazian coast in the 2nd century AD.

King of the Sanigi. Confirmed in power by Emperor Hadrian (117–138 AD).

The Sanigi lived along the eastern coast of the Black Sea, roughly from the Psou River to the Shakhe. In later times, the Sanigi, along with the Abasgians and Lazi, are named among the peoples "who voluntarily recognized Roman rule," which implied military service, i.e., service in the Roman army.

Stachemflacus (Stachemplas, Stachemphacus) — king of the Zikhs, who lived between Tuapse and Anapa.

The western Zikhs are considered the ancestors of the coastal Adyghe. The eastern Zikhs are the ancestors of the western Abkhazian tribes. These concepts correspond quite well to the later "Alba Zichia" and "Maura Zichia" ("Eastern Zichia" and "Western Zichia") of Genoese maps of the 13th–15th centuries.

Materials:

All rulers of Abkhazia

Abkhazian Kingdom. 786 CE
Anthroponymic repertoire of the "Divan of the Abkhazian kings". G. A. Amichba
Chronicle of the Abkhazian kings. F. Jordania 1902
Bgazhba O. Kh., Lakoba S. Z. History of Abkhazia from ancient times to the present day. 2007
Culture and ideology of early medieval Abkhazia (5th–10th centuries). Amichba 1999
"History of Abkhazia in dates". T. A. Achugba 2011
Circumnavigation of the Euxine Sea. Flavius Arrian
Naturalis Historia. Pliny the Elder 77–79. Latin-English 1969
Reports of ancient Greek and Latin writers about Scythia and the Caucasus. Latyshev 1947
Constantine Porphyrogenitus. On the Administration of the Empire: Text, translation, commentary. Litavrin 1991

Flavius Arrian, a Roman commander who personally visited Sebastopolis on an inspection mission, first mentions the ancient Abkhazian tribe of the Abasgians. At the head of the Abasgians was King Resmag, who received this title from Emperor Hadrian (117–138 AD). At that time, the Abasgians bordered the Apsilae to the east and the Sanigi to the west. According to Flavius Arrian, the Apsilae lived north of the Lazi and had a king — Julian, who received this title from Emperor Trajan (98–117 AD). Flavius Arrian wrote that the Sanigi lived next to the Abasgians. At that time, the Sanigi were ruled by King Spatag, confirmed by the same Roman emperor Hadrian. In the territory of the latter, west of Pitiunt and Nitica (presumably, Gagra), Flavius Arrian mentions the Abascus River (modern Khashupse or Psou).

Maps of this period.


Materials:

"History of Abkhazia in Dates." T.A. Achugba 2011