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Definition of Cimmerians

Cimmerian
Cimmerian Cim*me"ri*an, a. [L. Cimmerius.] [Written also Kimmerian.] 1. Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness. 2. Without any light; intensely dark. In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. --Milton.

Meaning of Cimmerians from wikipedia

- Although the Cimmerians were culturally Scythian, they formed an ethnic unit separate from the Scythians proper, to whom the Cimmerians were related and...
- 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...
- 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...
- Conan the Cimmerian may refer to: Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard's fictional character Conan the Cimmerian (comics), Dark Horse Comics series about...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The Cimmerian Sibyl, by name Carmentis, was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy, near Lake Avernus (i.e...
- 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...
- 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...