List of ancient Colchian tribes
List of ancient Colchian tribes

List of ancient Colchian tribes

Section Title: List of ancient Colchian tribes
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Name	Location	Sources

Byzeres	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	near Moschici Mountains	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	Strabo, Pliny, Arrian, Theodoret of Cyrrus.

Tubal/Tabal/Tibareni	Black Sea coast of Anatolia	Herodotus, Xenophon, Strabo and other classical authors.

Zydretae	southern side of the Coruh river	Arrian.

Heniochi	northwest shores of Colchis	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	Pliny, Arrian.

Abasci	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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The Macrones were an ancient Colchian tribe.
The Macrones were an ancient Colchian tribe from the Moschici Mountains.

final_sentence: The Macrones were an ancient Colchian tribe.
final_sentence: The Macrones were an ancient Colchian tribe from the Moschici Mountains.