Cimmerians – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Cimmerians
n.
ancient Indo-European people who lived in north of the Caucasus and the Sea of Azov as early as 1300 B.C.
Cimmerians
The
Cimmerians or
Kimmerians (,
Kimmerioi) were an ancient
Indo-European people living north of the
Caucasus as early as 1300 BC. In the 8th century BC, under pressure from the Scythians, they migrated around the Black Sea. Linguistically they are usually regarded as
Iranian, or possibly
Thracian with an Iranian ruling class.
Cimmerians
[Greek] A mythical tribe who lived at the end of the world in a place of mists and darkness, where the sun never arrived. These people were popular in Greece and many stories were crafted. They ware believed to be the ancestors of the Scythians or the Celts.
Cimmerians
Cimmerians In Greek mythology a people who dwelt in a land of mist and darkness, variously placed, as by Homer in the extremest west on the ocean; in historical times, a people in the Palus Maeotis, who were driven away by the Scythians. The Cimmerians were contrasted with the Hyperboreans, who inhabited a land of perpetual sunshine.
