chapter 17._

_E. H. Bunbury, History of Ancient Geography, chapter 6, note H._

"The first of this [the Tartar] race known to the Romans were the Alani. In the fourth century they pitched their tents in the country between the Volga and the Tanais, at an equal distance from the Black Sea and the Caspian."

_J. C. L. Sismondi, Fall of the Roman Empire,