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The Bosporan kings were the rulers of the Bosporan Kingdom, an ancient Hellenistic Greco-Scythian state centered on the Kerch Strait (the Cimmerian Bosporus) and ruled from the city of Panticapaeum. Panticapaeum was founded in the 7th or 6th century BC; the earliest known king of the Bosporus is Archaeanax , who seized control of the city c ...
With Urartu incapable of stopping the Cimmerian advance, [124] some time around c. 675 BC, [191] under their king Dugdammî [192] [183] [127] (the Lygdamis of the Greek authors [183] [127] [177]), the western Cimmerians invaded and destroyed the empire of Phrygia, whose king Midas committed suicide, and sacked its capital of Gordion, [193 ...
The Bosporan Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus (Ancient Greek: Βασιλεία τοῦ Κιμμερικοῦ Βοσπόρου, romanized: Basileía tou Kimmerikou Bospórou; Latin: Regnum Bospori), was an ancient Greco-Scythian state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus, centered in the present-day Strait of Kerch.
The arrival of the Scythians and their establishment in this region in the 7th century BC [28] corresponded to a disturbance of the development of Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex, [23] which was thus replaced through a continuous process [29] over the course of c. 750 to c. 600 BC by the early Scythian culture in southern Europe, which itself nevertheless still showed links to the ...
The Liber Historiae Francorum, written in 727 AD, asserts that after Troy's fall, two leaders called Priam and Antenor lead some 12,000 men to the river Tanais (now called the Don, in Russia) and from there they settled in Pannonia, which the author wrongly understood to adjoin the Sea of Azov. In Pannonia they constructed a city called Sicambria.
Antenor was variously named as the son of the Dardanian noble Aesyetes by Cleomestra [3] or of Hicetaon. [4] He was the husband of Theano, [5] daughter of Cisseus of Thrace, who bore him at least one daughter, Crino, [6] and numerous sons, including Acamas, [7] [8] Agenor, [9] [10] Antheus, [11] Archelochus, [12] [13] Coön, [14] Demoleon, [15] Eurymachus, [16] Glaucus, [17] Helicaon, [18 ...
The origin of the name Cimbri is unknown. One etymology [1] is Proto-Indo-European: *tḱim-ro-, lit. 'inhabitant', from *tḱoi-m-"home" (English home), itself a derivation from *tḱei-"live" (Ancient Greek: κτίζω, Latin: sinō); then, the Germanic *himbra-finds an exact cognate in Slavic sębrъ "farmer" (Croatian, Serbian sebar, Belorussian сябёр syabyor).
Antenor (king), a king of the Cimmerian Bosporus; Antenor (Trojan), a figure in Greek mythology; Antenor (mythology), a list of other people with the name in Greek mythology; Antenor (writer), ancient Greek writer; Antenor of Provence (fl. c. 700), patrician of Provence; Anténor Firmin, (1850–1911), Haitian anthropologist, journalist, and ...