BASTARNÆ, an ancient people in European Sarmatia, who, according to some authors, had emigrated from Germania. They were a powerful nation, occupying the country between the rivers Tyras and Borysthenes, about the mouth of the Danube, and seem to have belonged to the great race of the Celts.

BASTARNICÆ ALPES, in Ancient Geography, called also the Carpathes, now the Carpathian Mountains.