Categories: Disambiguation The Cimmerians were an ancient people of unknown affinity, possibly of Anatolian, Thracian or Iranian origin, who lived in the south of modern-day Ukraine (Crimea and northern Black sea coast) and Russia (Black Sea coast and Caucasus), at least in the 8th and 7th century BC. In the early... The Cimmerian plate is an ancient tectonic plate that comprises parts of present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and Tibet. ... Plate tectonics (from the Greek word for one who constructs, τεκτων, tekton) is a theory of geology developed to explain the phenomenon of continental drift, and is currently the theory accepted by the vast majority of scientists working in this area. ... Cimmeria is a land of barbarians and the homeland of Conan the Barbarian in the fictional works of Robert E. Howard. ... A fictional country is a country that is made up, and does not exist in real life. ... A map of Robert E. Howards Hyborian world. ... Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories, published primarily in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet. Robert E. Howard, The Phoenix on the Sword, 1932. ... Cimmeria is a poem by Robert E. Howard about the fictional country Cimmeria, created by Howard as part of his Hyborian world which is the setting for his character Conan the Barbarian. ... Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories, published primarily in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... The exploration of other worlds is one of the most enduring themes of science fiction. ... The Stargate fictional universe is originally based on the 1994 science fiction film Stargate. ... Cimmeria is a fictional country featuring in Italo Calvinos novel If on a Winters Night a Traveller. ... A fictional country is a country that is made up, and does not exist in real life. ... If On a Winters Night a Traveler (Se una notte dinverno un viaggiatore) is a novel published in 1979 by Italo Calvino. ... Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985) was an Italian writer and novelist. ...