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H. gives further evidence for Cimmerians in Scythia, partly archaeological, partly that of names: it is curious that ‘Crimea’ has survived all the other names for the land.

The τείχεα are perhaps the still surviving dyke on the isthmus of Taman, i. e. on the east side of the straits. Strabo (494) says there was once a town, Κιμμερικόν, ‘closing the isthmus with a ditch and a dyke.’ The ‘straits’ are those of Jenikale, the narrowest part of the Cimmerian Bosporus, leading into the Sea of Azov.

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