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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8077138, member: 128351&quot;]There are several towns, villages or just places in the northern half of France called Sermaize, Sermaizes or Sermizelles. These place-names come from <i>Sarmatae</i>, the Sarmatians. These Iranian-related nomadic horsemen North of the Black Sea were the equivalent of cossacks in Antiquity. Like the Tsar of Russia, the Shah of Persia or the Turkish sultan in modern times, the late Roman emperors wanted regiments of cossacks in their army, so they hired groups of Sarmatians and gave them estates in Gaul.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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