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Details of the Bosporan Kingdom are scant thereafter but it appears to have undergone several successive periods of rule by Sarmatians, Alans, Goths and Huns. [2] There was probably a continuous sequence of rulers [2] but few names are known. [b] Douptounos fl. c. 483 [2] Gordas fl. 527 (Hunnic ruler) [4] Mugel c. 527 (Hunnic ruler) [20]
The recorded personal names of the Cimmerians were either Iranic, reflecting their origins, or Anatolian, reflecting the cultural influence of the native populations of Asia Minor on them after their migration there. [15] Only a few personal names in the Cimmerian language have survived in Assyrian inscriptions:
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 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 name has also been related to the word kimme meaning "rim", i.e., "the people of the coast". [2] Finally, since Antiquity, the name has been related to that of the Cimmerians. [3] The name of the Danish region Himmerland (Old Danish Himbersysel) has been proposed to be a derivative of their name. [4]
The Cimmerians changed the name of their tribe to Sicambri in honor of Cambra. [2] Cambra's son by Antenor, Priamus the Younger , succeeded his father when he was twenty-six. According to John Tritemicus , Cambra was so beautiful and wise that the Frankish monarchy obeyed her as if she was an Oracle, and she converted the people to civility ...
In Greek mythology, Antenor (Ancient Greek: Ἀντήνωρ Antḗnōr) may refer to two distinct characters: . Antenor, husband of Theano and an Elder of Troy. [1]Antenor, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Zacynthus along with other 43 wooers. [2]
Teušpâ was the king of the western Cimmerian horde, who had moved into Anatolia. In 679 BC, Teušpâ led a Cimmerian incursion against the western borderlands of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and was defeated and killed by the Assyrian king Esarhaddon near Ḫubušna in Cappadocia .