And we never have seen Rome's eastern frontier with Sarmatia. Where exactly IS the border of the Province of Sarmatia? Is it the Dniester? The Southern Bug? The Brysthenes (now Dnieper)? All the way to the Tanais (Don and the Albi (Volga)?
And if the boundary is the Dniester or the Southern Bug will the Sarmatiii be content to guard the Eastern Frontier? Or will they conquer and recruit the Venedi for a rematch?
As far as I understand, nothing changed with the eastern sarmatians. The new province of Sarmatia is the homeland of the Iazyges between Pannonia and Dacia. So the border is still the known eastern border of Dacia (Carpathians) and of Moesia inferior (Lower Danube). The romans sometimes conquered the smaller region between the lower Danube and the Carpathians during campaigns against the Roxolani or Bastarni, but they never really provicialized it.
To conquer entire Sarmatia (todays Ukraine and more) makes probably no sense or is not possible at all, because in this region cavalry armies have major advantages. So everything east of the Dnjestr is secured more appropriately via contracts or client-kings.
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