Background
The following is a list of ancient Colchian tribes.
| Name | Location | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
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