kimrians

Updated: September 5, 2025

They called themselves Kymrians or Kimrians, whence the Romans made Cimbrians, which recalls Cimmerii or Cimmerians, the name of a people whom the Greeks placed on the western bank of the Black Sea and in the Cimmerian peninsula, called to this day Crimea.

M. (François) Guizot - A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1