'the horde from who knows where'[1]) is a term used in the early second and first millennia BC for a poorly known people in the Ancient Near East.
[2] The homeland of Umman Manda seems to be somewhere from Central Anatolia to north or northeastern Babylonia, possibly in what later came to be known as Mitanni, Mannae, or Media.
[3] Zaluti, whose name seems to have an Indo-Iranian etymology, is mentioned as a leader of Ummanda Manda.
He is even suggested to be identified with Salitis the founder of the Hyksos, the Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt.
[4] During the middle-6th century BC, the term Ummān Manda was used to designate the Cimmerians and the Scythians.