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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 368 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CIMMERII , an See also:

ancient See also:

PEOPLE

people of the far See also:

north or See also:

west of See also:

EUROPE

Europe, first spoken of by See also:

HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer (Odyssey, xi. 12-19), who describes them as living in perpetual darkness. See also:

HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus (iv. 11-13), in his See also:

account of See also:

SCYTHIA (Gr. EKuOia)

Scythia, regards them as the See also:

early inhabitants of See also:

South See also:

Russia (after whom the See also:

BOSPORUS, or BOSPHORUS (Gr. Boo-iopos=ox-ford, tradition-ally connected with Io, daughter of Inachus, who, in the form of a heifer, crossed the Thracian Bosporus on her wanderings)

Bosporus Cimmerius [q.v.] and other places were named), driven by the Scyths along by the See also:

CAUCASUS

Caucasus into See also:

ASIA

Asia See also:

Minor, where they maintained them-selves for a See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. But the Cimmerii are often mentioned in connexion with the Thracian Treres who made their raids across the See also:

HELLESPONT (i.e. " Sea of Helle "; variously named in classical literature `EXX oirov-ros, o "EXXns a6vros, Hellespontum Pelagus, and Rectum Hellesponticum)

Hellespont, and it is quite possible that some Cimmerii took this route, having been cut off by the Scyths as the See also:

ALANI (Gr. 'AXavoi, 'AAavvoi ; Chinese 'O-lan-na; since the 9th century A.U. they have been called As, Russ. Jasy, Georgian Ossi)

Alani (q.v.) were by the See also:

HUNS

Huns. Certain it is that in the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 7th century B.C., Asia Minor was ravaged by See also:

NORTHERN

northern nomads (See also:

Herod. iv. 12), one See also:

BODY

body of whom is called in See also:

ASSYRIAN

Assyrian See also:

SOURCES

sources Gimirrai and is represented as coming through the Caucasus. They were probably Iranian speakers, to See also:

JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge by the few proper names preserved. The name has also been identified with the biblical See also:

GOMER

Gomer, son of See also:

JAPHETH (np.:)

Japheth (Gen. x. 2, 3). -To the north of the Euxine their See also:

main body was merged in the invading Scyths. Later writers identified them with the See also:

CIMBRI

Cimbri of See also:

JUTLAND (Danish Jylland)

Jutland, who were probably Teutonized Celts, but this is a See also:

mere guess due to the similarity of name.

The Homeric Cimmerii belong to an early See also:

PART

part of the Odyssey in which the See also:

hero was conceived as wandering in the Euxine; these adventures were afterwards translated to the western Mediterranean in accordance with a wider See also:

GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical outlook. For the Cimmerian invasions described by Herodotus, see SCYTHIA; See also:

LYDIA

LYDIA; See also:

GYGES

GYGES. (E. H.

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