Suarni
Eth. Suarni a rude people of Asiatic Sarmatia, in the neighbourhood of the Portae Caucasiae and the Rha. They possessed gold mines (Plin. Nat. 6.11. s. 12). They are probably the same people whom Ptolemy calls Surani (Σουρανοί, 5.9.20) and places between the Hippie and Ceraunian mountains.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.