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In the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, a significant movement of the nomads of the Eurasian steppe brought the Scythians into Southwest Asia. This movement started when another nomadic Iranic tribe closely related to the Scythians, either the Massagetae^[6] or the Issedones,^[7] migrated westwards, forcing the Early Scythians of the to the west across the Araxes river,^[8] following which the Scythians moved into the Caspian Steppe from where they displaced the Cimmerians.^[8]

Under Scythian pressure, the Cimmerians migrated to the south along the coast of the Black Sea and reached Anatolia, and the Scythians in turn later expanded to the south, following the coast of the Caspian Sea and arrived in the steppes in the Northern Caucasus, from where they expanded into the region of present-day Azerbaijan, where they settled and turned eastern Transcaucasia into their centre of operations in West Asia until the early 6th century BCE,^{[9][10][11][12]} with this presence in West Asia being an extension of the Scythian kingdom of the steppes.^[13] During this period, the Scythian kings' headquarters were located in the steppes to the north of Caucasus, and contact with the civilisation of West Asia would have an important influence on the formation of Scythian culture.^[6]