List of ancient Colchian tribes

The following is a list of ancient Colchian tribes.COLCHIS, Encyclopædia IranicaD. M. Lang, The Georgians, London 1966. chap. 6

List of ancient Colchian tribes

NameLocationSourcesByzeresGeorgian Soviet encyclopedia, Vol. 2, pg. 422, Tb., 1977.south of the Coruh River and Pontic Mountains.mentioned in Urartean sources as uiterukhi or uitirukhi.Drilaesouthern shores of the Black Sea.attested in Xenophon's book AnabasisMachelonessouth of the Rioni river.Pliny (NH 6.4.11), Lucian, Ptolemy, Arrian.MacronesSuny, Ronald Grigor (1994), The Making of the Georgian Nation: 2nd edition, p. 8. Indiana University Press, near Moschici MountainsKavtaradze, 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.Herodotus, Xenophon, Strabo (xii.3.18), Stephanus of Byzantium, Pliny, Procopius.Marressoutheast periphery of the Black SeaHerodotusMossynoeciwest of Trebizondmentioned in Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica, Xenophon's Anabasis (5.4.26-34), Herodotus.Phasianseastern part of PontusXenophon, Hippocrates.Sanninear TrebizondStrabo, Pliny, Arrian, Theodoret of Cyrrus.Tubal/TibareniBlack Sea coast of AnatoliaHerodotus, Xenophon, Strabo and other classical authors.Zydretaesouthern side of the Coruh riverEdwards, 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.Arrian.Heniochinorthwest shores of ColchisM. Inadze, Institute of History, Georgian Academy of Sciences, PROBLEMS OF ETHNOPOLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT ABKHAZIAAristotle, Artemidorus Ephesius, Ovid, Pliny, Arrian, Strabo and others.LaziPhasis river basinScylax, Procopius, Agathias, Pliny.MoschiCappadociaHecataeus of Miletus, Herodotus, Strabo, Stephanus of Byzantium.Apsilaemodern AbkhaziaPliny, Arrian.Abasgoiwestern AbkhaziaPliny, Strabo, Arrian.SoanesHeights of Dioscuria, modern Abkhazia.StraboCoraxinorthwest shores of ColchisStrabo.Sanigswestern AbkhaziaPliny, Arrian, Memnon of Heraclea.Tzannimodern day Rize and Artvin provincesArrian, Procopius.Chalybes/ChaldoiChaldiaHomer, Strabo, Xenophon.

See also Colchis

References

External links Iberiana - Georgian Tribes