Teušpâ

[4] In the 8th and 7th centuries BC, a significant movement of the nomads of the Eurasian steppe brought the Scythians into Southwest Asia.

According to Herodotus, this movement started when the Massagetae[5] or the Issedones[6] migrated westwards, forcing the Scythians to the west across the Araxes[7] and into the Caspian Steppe,[6][5] from where they displaced the Cimmerians.

[7] Under Scythian pressure, the Cimmerians migrated to the south through the Klukhor [ru], Alagir and Darial passes in the Greater Caucasus mountains and reached Western Asia, where they would remain active for much of the 7th century BCE.

In 679 BC, Teušpâ led a Cimmerian incursion against the western borderlands of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and was defeated and killed by the Assyrian king Esarhaddon near Ḫubušna in Cappadocia.

[10][9] Despite this victory, the military operations of the Assyrians were not fully successful and they were not able to firmly occupy the areas around Ḫubušna, nor were they able to secure their borders.