List of ancient Colchian tribes

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The following is a list of ancient Colchian tribes. [1] [2]

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List of ancient Colchian tribes

Southern Colchis. From "Reditus Decem Millium Graecorum", 1815 Central and southern parts of Colchis and part of Iberia.jpg
Southern Colchis. From "Reditus Decem Millium Graecorum", 1815
Map of the voyage of the Argonauts by Abraham Ortelius, 1624 MapoftheVoyageoftheArgonauts Caucasus.jpg
Map of the voyage of the Argonauts by Abraham Ortelius, 1624
NameLocationSources
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 SeaHerodotus
Mossynoeci west of Trebizondmentioned in Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica, Xenophon's Anabasis (5.4.26-34), Herodotus.
Phasians eastern part of PontusXenophon, Hippocrates.
Sanni near Trebizond [6] Strabo, Pliny, Arrian, Theodoret of Cyrrus.
Tubal/Tibareni Black Sea coast of AnatoliaHerodotus, 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 AbkhaziaPliny, Strabo, Arrian.
Soanes Heights of Dioscuria, modern Abkhazia.Strabo [11]
Coraxi northwest shores of ColchisStrabo.
Sanigs western AbkhaziaPliny, Arrian, Memnon of Heraclea.
Tzanni modern day Rize and Artvin provincesArrian, Procopius.
Chalybes/Chaldoi Chaldia Homer, Strabo, Xenophon.

References

  1. ↑ COLCHIS, Encyclopædia Iranica
  2. ↑ D. M. Lang, The Georgians, London 1966. chap. 6
  3. ↑ Georgian Soviet encyclopedia, Vol. 2, pg. 422, Tb., 1977.
  4. ↑ Suny, Ronald Grigor (1994), The Making of the Georgian Nation: 2nd edition, p. 8. Indiana University Press, ISBN   0-253-20915-3
  5. ↑ Kavtaradze, Giorgi L. (2002), An Attempt to Interpret Some Anatolian and Caucasian Ethnonyms of the Classical Sources, pp. 63-83. Sprache und Kultur #3. Staatliche Ilia Tschawtschawadse Universität Tbilisi für Sprache und Kultur. Institut zur Erforschung des westlichen Denkens, Tbilissi.
  6. ↑ Pliny the Elder. Natural History. pp. Book VI, section IV. Archived from the original on 2017-01-01.
  7. ↑ Edwards, Robert W. (1988), The Vale of Kola: A Final Preliminary Report on the Marchlands of Northeast Turkey, p. 129-130. Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Vol. 42.
  8. ↑ M. Inadze, Institute of History, Georgian Academy of Sciences, PROBLEMS OF ETHNOPOLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT ABKHAZIA
  9. ↑ "Апсилы". Bse.sci-lib.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  10. ↑ Alexander Mikaberidze (6 February 2015). Historical Dictionary of Georgia. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 130–1. ISBN   978-1-4422-4146-6.
  11. ↑ https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0239:book=11:chapter=2:section=19
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