Cimmeria may refer to:
*Cimmeria, an ancient name of
Crimea
Crimea ( ) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukrain ...
, a peninsula in the northern part of the Black Sea
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Bosporan Kingdom
The Bosporan Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus (; ), was an ancient Greco-Scythians, Scythian state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus, centered in the present-day ...
, a polity of antiquity located on Crimea, also referred to as Cimmeria
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Cimmerians
The Cimmerians were an Ancient Iranian peoples, ancient Eastern Iranian languages, Eastern Iranian peoples, Iranic Eurasian nomads, equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into W ...
, an ancient people who lived in the North Caucasus in the 8th and 7th century BC, usually associated with the ancient Cimmeria or Crimea
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Cimmeria (continent)
Cimmeria ( ) was an ancient continent, or, rather, a string of continental fragment, microcontinents or terranes, that rifted from Gondwana in the Southern Hemisphere and was accreted to Eurasia in the Northern Hemisphere. It consisted of parts ...
, an ancient microcontinent separating the ancient Paleo-Tethys and Neo-Tethys oceans
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Cimmeria (Conan)
The Hyborian Age is a fictional period of Earth's history within the artificial mythology created by Robert E. Howard, serving as the setting for the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian.
The word "Hyborian" is derived from the le ...
, a fictional country created by Robert E. Howard for his Conan the Barbarian stories
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''Cimmeria'' (poem), by Robert E. Howard
*Cimmeria, a fictional country in ''
If on a winter's night a traveler
''If on a winter's night a traveler'' () is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. The Postmodern literature, postmodernist narrative, in the form of a frame story, is about the reader trying to read a book called ''If on a winter's n ...
'' by Italo Calvino
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Cimmeria (Stargate), a fictional planet in the Stargate setting
See also
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Crimea (disambiguation)
Crimea, or the Crimean Peninsula, historically also known as the ''Tauric Chersonese'' (Tauric Peninsula, Tauric, Taurica, or Tauris), is a major peninsula in the north of the Black Sea.
Crimea may also refer to:
Places Crimean Peninsula Republic ...
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Kimmerikon
Kimmerikón (Greek language, Greek , ) was an Ancient Greeks, ancient Greek city in Crimea, on the southern shore of the Kerch Peninsula, at the western slope of Opuk (mountain), Opuk mountain, roughly 40 kilometres southwest of modern Kerch. It w ...
, an ancient Greek town southwest of modern Kerch
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Terra Cimmeria
Terra Cimmeria is a large Martian region, centered at and covering at its broadest extent. It covers latitudes 15 N to 75 S and longitudes 170 to 260 W. It lies in the Eridania quadrangle. Terra Cimmeria is one part of the heavily cratered, ...
, a region on Mars
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