The Cimmerians were an ancient nomadic tribe who occupied the Tauric Chersonese (Crimea) and Asiatic Sarmatia (the country of the lower Volga). They are said, in pre-Homeric times, to have ravaged Asia Minor, and in a second invasion to have penetrated to AEolis and Ionia, and to have held possession of Sardis. A mythical people mentioned in the Odyssey as dwelling beyond the ocean-stream in the thickest gloom were also termed Cimmerii, a fable which gave rise to the phrase Cimmerian darkness. Research Cimmerians
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