Cimmeria
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Cimmeria may refer to:
- Cimmeria, an ancient name of the Crimea, a peninsula in the North part of Black Sea, or the Eastern part thereof
- CimmeriansCimmeriansThe Cimmerians or Kimmerians were ancient equestrian nomads of Indo-European origin.According to the Greek historian Herodotus, of the 5th century BC, the Cimmerians inhabited the region north of the Caucasus and the Black Sea during the 8th and 7th centuries BC, in what is now Ukraine and Russia...
, an ancient people who lived in the south of modern-day Ukraine in the 8th and 7th century BC, usually associated with the ancient Cimmeria or Crimea (mentioned above) - Cimmeria (continent)Cimmeria (continent)Cimmeria was an ancient microcontinent that existed about 200 million years ago. It rifted north from Gondwana during the Late Carboniferous and collided against eastern Laurasia during the Late Triassic together with the Chinese continents. The collision created new mountain ranges between...
, an ancient microcontinent separating the ancient Paleo-Tethys and Neo-Tethys oceans - Cimmeria (Conan)Cimmeria (Conan)Cimmeria is a fictional land of barbarians in antediluvian earth and the homeland of Conan the Barbarian in the works of Robert E. Howard.-Fictional history:...
, a fictional country in the Conan the Barbarian stories created by Robert E. Howard- First mentioned in his poem CimmeriaCimmeria (poem)"Cimmeria" is a poem by Robert E. Howard about the fictional country Cimmeria, created by Howard as part of his Hyborian world which is the setting for his character Conan the Barbarian...
- First mentioned in his poem Cimmeria
- Cimmeria (Calvino), a fictional country in If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
- Cimmeria (Stargate), a fictional planet in the Stargate setting