Cimmerians
Ancient nomadic Iranic people who invaded West Asia in the 8th and 7th centuries BC / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Cimmerian" redirects here. For other uses, see Cimmeria.
The Cimmerians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia. Although the Cimmerians were culturally Scythian, they formed an ethnic unit separate from the Scythians proper, to whom the Cimmerians were related and who displaced and replaced the Cimmerians.[1]
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Common languages | Scythian | ||||||||||||||
Religion | Scythian religion (?) Ancient Iranic religion (?) Luwian religion (?) | ||||||||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||
King | |||||||||||||||
• Unknown–679 BC | Teušpa | ||||||||||||||
• 679–640 BC | Tugdamme | ||||||||||||||
• 640–630s BC | Sandakšatru | ||||||||||||||
Historical era | Iron Age | ||||||||||||||
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The Cimmerians themselves left no written records, and most information about them is largely derived from Assyrian records of the 8th to 7th centuries BC and from Graeco-Roman authors from the 5th century BC and later.