Editing Cimmerians (section)

=====Attack on Šubria=====
In the 650s BC, the Cimmerians were allied to Urartu{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=92}}{{sfn|Adalı|2017|p=70}} and were serving as auxiliaries in the service of its king Rusa II, who was then attempting to attack the newly conquered Assyrian province of Šubria near the Urartian border.<ref>{{Unbulleted list citebundle|{{harvnb|Phillips|1972|p=132}}|{{harvnb|Ivantchik|1993a|pp=74–76}}|{{harvnb|Adalı|2023|p=213}}|{{harvnb|Cunliffe|2019|p=33}}|{{harvnb|Fuchs|2023|p=750}}}}</ref> Urartu was thus integrating steppe nomad mercenaries into its armed forces, and was also trying to borrow the military technology of these peoples.{{sfn|Adalı|2023|p=212}}

======Alliance with the Treres======
[[File:Sozopol Archaeological Museum IMG 4219.JPG|thumb|right|350px|A Thracian mounted warrior followed by a warrior on foot.]]
Around the {{c.|660s BCE}}, the [[Thracians|Thracian]] tribe of the [[Treres]] migrated across the [[Bosporus|Thracian Bosporus]] and invaded Anatolia from the north-west,{{sfn|Diakonoff|1985|p=95}}{{sfn|de Boer|2006|p=44-45}}{{sfn|Kõiv|2022|p=268}} after which they allied with the Cimmerians,{{sfn|Tokhtas’ev|1991}} and, from around the {{c.|650s BC}}, the Cimmerians were nomadising in Anatolia along with the Treres.{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=92}}{{sfn|de Boer|2021|p=20}}