Cimmerians
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The Cimmerians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia. Although the Cimmerians were cultur
The Cimmerian migrations across West Asia and surrounding areas
The Assyrian king Sargon II (left) and the crown prince Sennacherib (right).
An Assyrian relief depicting Cimmerian mounted warriors
Reproduction of a depiction of Cimmerian mounted archers from a Greek vase.
Lydia
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Lydia was an Indo-European Iron Age kingdom situated in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire. Its capital w
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…the northwest, were the kingdoms of: Phrygia, with its capital at Gordion, held hegemony over Central and Midwest Anatolia and parts of Cilicia; and Lydia; Babylon, conquered several times by the Assyrians, in the south…
The temple of Artemis in Sardis, capital of Lydia
Tripolis on the Meander is an ancient Lydian city in Turkey.
Büyük Menderes River, also known as the Maeander, is a river in Lydia.
Gyges tablet, British Museum