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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 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.
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).
Sandakšatru was the son of the previous Cimmerian king, Tugdammi, who had led the western Cimmerian group into invading the kingdoms of Phrygia, which was destroyed by the Cimmerians, and Lydia, whose king Gyges died during the invasion of his kingdom, and into several conflicts with the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which was the then superpower in ...
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 .
Around 675 BCE, the Cimmerians under Dugdammî, in alliance with the Urartian king Rusa II carried out a military campaign to the west, against Muški (Phrygia), Ḫate (the Neo-Hittite state of Melid), and Ḫaliṭu (either the Alizōnes or the Khaldoi); [12] this campaign resulted in the invasion and destruction of the kingdom of Phrygia ...