The following is a list of ancient Colchian tribes.[1][2]
List of ancient Colchian tribes
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Name | Location | Sources |
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Byzeres[3] | south of the Coruh River and Pontic Mountains. | mentioned in Urartean sources as uiterukhi or uitirukhi. |
Drilae | southern shores of the Black Sea. | attested in Xenophon's book Anabasis |
Machelones | south of the Rioni river. | Pliny (NH 6.4.11), Lucian, Ptolemy, Arrian. |
Macrones[4] | near Moschici Mountains[5] | Herodotus, Xenophon, Strabo (xii.3.18), Stephanus of Byzantium, Pliny, Procopius. |
Marres | southeast periphery of the Black Sea | Herodotus |
Mossynoeci | west of Trebizond | mentioned in Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica, Xenophon's Anabasis (5.4.26-34), Herodotus. |
Phasians | eastern part of Pontus | Xenophon, Hippocrates. |
Sanni | near Trebizond[6] | Strabo, Pliny, Arrian, Theodoret of Cyrrus. |
Tubal/Tibareni | Black Sea coast of Anatolia | Herodotus, Xenophon, Strabo and other classical authors. |
Zydretae | southern side of the Coruh river[7] | Arrian. |
Heniochi | northwest shores of Colchis[8] | Aristotle, Artemidorus Ephesius, Ovid, Pliny, Arrian, Strabo and others. |
Lazi | Phasis river basin | Scylax, Procopius, Agathias, Pliny. |
Moschi | Cappadocia | Hecataeus of Miletus, Herodotus, Strabo, Stephanus of Byzantium. |
Apsilae | modern Abkhazia[9][10] | Pliny, Arrian. |
Abasgoi | western Abkhazia | Pliny, Strabo, Arrian. |
Coraxi | northwest shores of Colchis | Strabo. |
Sanigs | western Abkhazia | Pliny, Arrian, Memnon of Heraclea. |
Tzanni | modern day Rize and Artvin provinces | Arrian, Procopius. |
Chalybes/Chaldoi | Chaldia | Homer, Strabo, Xenophon. |
References
[edit]- ^ COLCHIS, Encyclopædia Iranica
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