Cimmerian Crossings

Cimmerian crossings - crossings over the Bosporus Cimmerian ( Strait of Kerch ) twice mentioned by Herodotus , and both times - in the plural, which gives grounds for the assumption that there were several crossings through the strait.

They are named after the Cimmerians , who by the time the Greeks met Bosporus in the 5th century BC. e. were considered extinct. According to researcher M.V. Skrzhinsky , Cimmerian place names on the Bosporus arose during the pre-colonization period among the Scythians , from whom the Greeks borrowed a number of names.

The crossings were repeatedly named after the people from whom the new arrivals found out about their existence (for example, in the Middle Ages there were Khazar crossings).