List of ancient Colchian tribes explained

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

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.

External links

• Iberiana - Georgian Tribes

Notes and References

1. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/colchis 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]
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. Book: Pliny the Elder. Natural History. Book VI, section IV. https://web.archive.org/web/20170101063545/http://www.masseiana.org/pliny.htm. 2017-01-01. dead.
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. Web site: Апсилы. Bse.sci-lib.com. 2013-10-21.
10. Book: Historical Dictionary of Georgia. Alexander Mikaberidze. 6 February 2015. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 978-1-4422-4146-6. 130–1.