CIMMERIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town at the mouth of the Palus Mæotis; from which the Boeotian Cimmerius is named; that strait which joins the Euxine and the Palus Mæotis. Cimmerii was the name of the people (Homer); and here stood the Promontorium Cimmerium (Ptolemy); and hence probably the modern appellation Crim.