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Cimmerians

ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people originating in the Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia

10 dated entries naming Cimmerians, drawn from 7 separate years between 1200 BCE and 242 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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12th century BC

  • 1200 BCEc. 1200 BC: The Cimmerians are conjectured to have started settling the steppes of southern Russia.source

8th century BC

  • 750 BCE750 BC—King Sardur II shows the cities in the kingdom of Urartu strengthen against the Cimmerians.source

7th century BC

  • 696 BCE696 BC—Cimmerian forces begin a conquest of Phrygia (modern Turkey), having failed in their efforts to defeat the Assyrians and moved into Anatolia.source
  • 679 BCEThe Cimmerians attacked Lydia for the third time, led by their king Lygdamis. The Lydians were defeated, Sardis was sacked, and Gyges was killed, following which he was succeeded by his son, Ardys, who was the father of Sadyattes.source
  • 679 BCEThe Assyrian king Esarhaddon (r. 681–669 BCE), the son of Sennacherib, defeated the Cimmerians and killed their king Teušpa at Ḫubišna. Esarhaddon appears to have reached Ḫubišna by passing through the Göksu River valley and bypassing the Anti-Taurus Mountains and Tabal proper.source
  • 679 BCEThe Cimmerians migrate to the east and west of Mannaea.source
  • 679 BCETeušpâ, king of the Cimmerianssource
  • 675 BCEKing Deioces dies after a 53-year reign that has established the kingdom of the Medes and its capital at Ecbatana (later Hamedan) in what will be northwest Persia. He is succeeded by his son Phraortes, who forms an anti-Assyrian alliance with the Cimmerians to subjugate the Persians and other Asian peoples.source
  • 644 BCECimmerian forces from Anatolia conquer Sardis and reach the peak of their power. King Gyges of Lydia has spent most of his 28-year reign fighting his southern and western neighbors in an effort to gain suzerainty over all of Western Asia Minor. He has helped the rebellion of Psamtik I, but he receives no support from his erstwhile Assyrian ally Ashurbanipal. Gyges falls in a battle against the Cimmerians under king Tugdamme (approximate date).source

3rd century

  • 242Gordian III evacuates the Cimmerian cities in the Bosphorus (Crimea), as the territory is now controlled by the Goths.source

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