Cimerienii erau un popor de origine iraniană[1][2][3][4][5] sau tracică.[6] După unii istorici, cimerienii s-au înrudit cu traco-ilirii.[necesită citare] După părerea altora, în secolele XVI î.Hr.-XI î.Hr. cimerienii se aflau pe teritoriul de la nordul și nord-vestul Mării Negre spre apus și spre Dunăre.
CIMMERIANS, a nomadic people, most likely of Iranian origin, who flourished in the 8th-7th centuries b.c.e.
(Κιμμέριοι; Kimmérioi, Lat. Cimmerii). Nomadic tribe probably of Iranian descent, attested for the 8th/7th cents. BC.
Cimmerians (Iranian population)
Ethnically and linguistically, the Scythians and Cimmerians were kindred groups (both people spoke Old Iranian dialects) (...)
The Cimmerians lived north of the Caucasus mountains in South Russia and probably were related to the Thracians, but they surely were a mixed group by the time they appeared south of the mountains, and we hear of them first in the year 714 B.C. after they presumably had defeated the Urartians