Cremni

CREMNI

CREMNI(Κρήμνοι), a town of European Sarmatia; W. of the promontory Agarum, and called by Herodotus (Hdt. 4.20, 110) a factory of the free Scythians on the W. of the Palus Maeotis. Mannert (vol. 4. p. 114; comp. Ritter, Vorhalle, p. 156) places it in the neighbourhood of Taganrog. By others it has been sought for at Starí--Krimnear Miariupol. (Reichardt, Klein. Geogr. Schrift. p. 285; comp. Eichwald, Alte Geogr. d. Casp. Meer, p. 309.)

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Cremni Cremni, (cliffs) name of a port in Scythia

• on the "Maeetian lake,": Hdt. 4.20, Hdt. 4.110