Map of the invaders of the Cimmeniers from the period 715-713 BC.
The Cimars or Kimmerians (Ancient Greek: Κιμμέριοι) were an early European rider in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe of South Russia and Ukraine in the 8th and 7th centuries.
Archaeologists associate them with the Proto-Scythian Chernovorovsk culture in Ukraine.
It is believed that they had an Iranian ruling elite, possibly based on an original Thracian population.
Around 750 BC. the Cimars urged from the Crimea (where the name of Cimmerian Bosphorus is still known for the Strait of Kerch) crossed the Caucasus to the south and threatened Asia Minor and Assyria, but were driven to the west. They pulled through Asia Minor and defeated the Frygian empire and King Gyges of Lydia in 654 or 652 BC. King Alyattes II knew the Cimmerians to beat a few decades later.
There are several theories about what happened after the Cimmerians, but there is no certainty. Trivia
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