Could the Sarmatians last longer?

So, I've always had a soft spot for the lost cultures of the world (Dacians, Thracians, Illyrians, Lusitanians, Carthaginians...) but all of this aside, I find the Sarmatians extremely interesting. They spoke an Indo-Iranian language, they supplanted the Scythians in the steppe north of the Black Sea, and they preferred to ride as heavy cavalry cataphracts.

They were conquered by the Huns, and the Goths after them. They were gone by the 8th century. So, how could they have lasted longer? Could they somehow defeated the Huns, could they have revived after the death of Attila, or maybe a Sarmatian migration is needed?

Well, AH, what are y'all's ideas?
 
If you count the Alans as Sarmatians (something debated AFAIK) they are documented for well into the XIII century, and Ossetian continue their traditions and language.
By the way, the Goths went into Sarmatia before the Huns arrived and came to dominate most of the area: but surely a lot of Sarmatians still were around and probably intermarried heavily with both Slavs and Goths in Ukraine.
 
They were actually around long after the 8th century. The Alans, a major branch of the Sarmatians, continued to exist in the northern Caucasus in the kingdom of Alania (now the Republic of North Ossetia of the Russian Federation), where they would combat the Mongol invasions during the 1200's. Athough some would even be recruited into the armies of the Golden Horde, and were reported by Marco Polo to have served in the Asud, part of the imperial guard of the Yuan Dynasty.

Others of that same group during the Fourth Century CE did flee from the Huns (although others of their kin would remain back and continue to serve the Huns), under the leadership of Respendial, would travel alongside the Suebi and the Vandals into Spain, and again even following the latter into North Africa under the leadership of Geiseric.

Another group of Alans, quite apart from the group that migrated into Spain and under the leadership of a man named Goar, at about the same time, would ally themselves with the Romans,
would settle into northern Gaul.
 
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