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    Although the Cimmerians were culturally Scythian, they formed an ethnic unit separate from the Scythians proper, to whom the Cimmerians were related and...
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    used the name "Cimmerians" to designate all the nomad peoples of the steppe, including the Scythians and Saka. However, while the Cimmerians were an Iranic...
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    The Cimmerian Orogeny was an orogeny that created mountain ranges that now lie in Central Asia. The orogeny is believed to have begun during the Late...
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  • Conan the Cimmerian may refer to: Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard's fictional character Conan the Cimmerian (comics), Dark Horse Comics series about...
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    Cimmerians as mercenaries. Some Cimmerians were probably present when Rusa II tried to enter south-west Asia in ~672. In Asia Minor, the Cimmerians had...
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  • Howard imagined the Cimmerians as a pre-Celtic people with mostly black hair and blue or grey eyes. Ethnically, the Cimmerians to which Conan belongs...
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    Thraco-Cimmerian is a historiographical and archaeological term, composed of the names of the Thracians and the Cimmerians. It refers to 8th to 7th century...
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    The Cimmerian Sibyl, by name Carmentis, was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy, near Lake Avernus (i.e...
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    degeneration of the gold solidus through silver and potin to bronze. Cimmerians Strait of Kerch Getae Kingdom of Pontus Odrysian kingdom Tanais Tablets...
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    the Cimmerians. After defeating the Cimmerians, Alyattes took advantage of the weakening of the various polities all across Anatolia by the Cimmerian raids...
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  • waves of invasions by the Cimmerians, a nomadic people from the Eurasian Steppe who had invaded the Western Asia. The Cimmerians attacked Lydia several times...
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  • Conan the Cimmerian is a video game that was released by Virgin Games and Synergistic Software in 1991 for Amiga and DOS. It is an action-adventure game...
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    final defeat of the Cimmerians was carried out by the joint forces of Madyes, whom Strabo credits with expelling the Treres and Cimmerians from Asia Minor...
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  • Sandakšatru (category Cimmerian kings)
    the Caspian Steppe, from where they displaced the Cimmerians. Under Scythian pressure, the Cimmerians migrated to the south through the Klukhor [ru], Alagir...
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    introduced by Suess in 1901, the "Kimmerisches Gebirge" – the "Crimean" or "Cimmerian Mountains". In the mountain range that now stretches from the Alps to...
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  • steppe nomads of ancient eastern and central Europe, especially with the Cimmerians. The Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex covered two phases: the Chernogorovka...
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    defend his territories there. He defeated and drove out the Scythians and Cimmerians who had attacked Assyria's Persian and Median vassal colonies in the region...
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    raiders entered northern and northeast Anatolia: the Cimmerians and Scythians. The Cimmerians overran Phrygia and the Scythians threatened to do the...
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  • final defeat of the Cimmerians was carried out by the joint forces of Madyes, whom Strabo credits with expelling the Treres and Cimmerians from Asia Minor...
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    from the Scythians proper, to whom the Cimmerians were related, and who also displaced and replaced the Cimmerians. Prominent archaeological remains of...
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  • with the Cimmerians, and the two groups, in alliance with the Medes, who were an Iranic people of Western Asia to whom the Scythians and Cimmerians were distantly...
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    honored the Cimmerians, nearby steppe nomads. In ancient times the low-lying land near the Strait was known as the Maeotic Swamp. The Cimmerian Bosporus...
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  • the Caspian Steppe from where they displaced the Cimmerians. Under Scythian pressure, the Cimmerians migrated to the south along the coast of the Black...
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  • Dugdammî (category Cimmerian kings)
    the Caspian Steppe, from where they displaced the Cimmerians. Under Scythian pressure, the Cimmerians migrated to the south through the Klukhor [ru], Alagir...
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  • Gomer (category Cimmerian people)
    the chief of the land of Magog. The Hebrew name Gomer refers to the Cimmerians, who dwelt in Pontic–Caspian steppe, "beyond the Caucasus", and attacked...
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    lasted until 658 BC, at which point he faced an impending Cimmerian invasion. The Cimmerians invaded Lydia again in 657 BC, though not much is known about...
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    ancient Hellenistic Greco-Scythian state centered on the Kerch Strait (the Cimmerian Bosporus) and ruled from the city of Panticapaeum. Panticapaeum was founded...
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    fell with the attacks of Medes and Scythians in seventh century BC. When Cimmerians attacked, Phrygia fell around 650 BC. They were replaced by Carians, Lycians...
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  • villages in the Caucasus where the Cimmerians (Gmry) are believed to have settled during the I millennium BC. Cimmerians were nomads who were successful...
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    Europe. During the Iron Age, the land was inhabited by Iranian-speaking Cimmerians, Scythians, and Sarmatians. Between 700 BC and 200 BC it was part of the...
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