Presenting the emerging concept of the Polish Commonwealth, Kraków humanists translated the Ptolemic formula differentiating between European and Asian Sarmatia into contemporary political geography, identifying Poland, Ruthenia, Lithuania and Moscow right up to the Don as Sarmatia Europaea.
2010, Jerzy Axer, Katarzyna Tomaszuk, “Central-Eastern Europe”, in Craig W. Kallendorf, editor, A Companion to the Classical Tradition, page 139