Ancient tribes in Thrace

thumb|306x306px|The regional location of the Bessi, in the Rhodope Mountains|Rhodope and North-West of the [[Dii tribe.]]

thumb|right|Approximate location of the Cicones|307x307px The Cicones (; ) or Ciconians were a Homeric Thracian tribe, whose stronghold in the time of Odysseus was the town of Ismara (or Ismarus), located at the foot of mount Ismara, on the south coast of Thrace (in modern Greece). They are mentioned in book two of the Iliad as having joined the war on the side of the Trojans, led by Euphemus. In book nine of Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus and his men take Ismara by surprise and slay most of the Ciconian men they come across, taking Ciconian women as slaves. Later Ciconian reinforcements arrive and

The Bebryces () were a tribe of people who lived in Bithynia. According to Strabo they were one of the many Thracian tribes that had crossed from Europe into Asia, although modern scholars have rather argued for a Celtic origin.

thumb|307x307px|The Maedi are visible in this regional map (as "Maidoi"). The Maedi (also Maidans, Maedans, or Medi; ) were a Thracian tribe in antiquity. They were an independent tribe through much of their history, and the Thracian king Sitalkes recognized their independence, along with several other warlike "border" tribes such as the Dardani, Agrianes, and Paeonians, whose lands formed a buffer zone between the powers of the Odrysians on the east and of Illyrian tribes in the west, while Macedon was located to the south of Paeonia.

thumb|right|Approximate location of the Bistones|303x303px Bistones () is the name of a Thracian people who dwelt between Mount Rhodopé and the Aegean Sea, beside Lake Bistonis, near Abdera extending westward as far as the river Nestus. It was through the land of the Bistones that Xerxes marched on his invasion of Greece (480 BC). The Bistones continued to exist at the time when the Romans were masters of Thrace. Roman poets sometimes use the names of the Bistones for that of the Thracians in general. Pliny mentions one town as belonging to the Bistones: Tirida; the other towns on their coast,

thumb|right|Approximate location of the Thyni|307x307px The Thyni (; ) were a Thracian tribe that lived in south-eastern Thrace. The Thyni were closely related to the Bithynians, with whom they often exchanged troops and royal marriages, later a section of the Thyni, along with the Bithyni, migrated to the area in Asia Minor that would later be known as and Bithynia, and where they would later be conquered by the Lydian and Persian empires. Each respective region (Thynia and Bithynia) got its name, presumably, from the Thracian tribe that was more prominent in the area. Xenophon (Anabasis VII,

thumb|305x305px|Bithynia, the region inhabited by the Bithyni thumb|304x304px|Struma (river)|Strymon river, where the Bithyni are said to have originally lived under the name Strymoni

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The Treres (; ) or Trares () were a Thracian tribe, of whom a part invaded Anatolia in the 7th century BCE, while another part lived in Thrace and Illyria.

thumb|right|Approximate location of the Dentheletae in the second half of the 5th century BC.|306x306px thumb|Approximate location of the Dentheletae|306x306px The Dentheletae (), also Danthaletae (Δανθαλῆται) or Denseletae, were a Thracian tribe that in antiquity lived near the sources of the River Strymon, and are mentioned in texts by Polybius, Cassius Dio, Tacitus and by Livy. They lived in the neighbourhoods of the modern towns Kyustendil (ancient Pautalia) and Dupnitsa (ancient Germania, from the Thracian word for "hot", due to its springs), stretching to as far as the mountains to the w

thumb|right|307x307px|Paeonia tribes and environs The Laeaeans (; ) were a Paeonian tribe who in the 4th century BC lived adjacent to the Agrianes, another Paeonian tribe, along the upper course of the Strymon river, at the western edge of Thrace. They were not incorporated into the Odrysian state or the Paeonian state, remaining an independent tribe outside the borders of those kingdoms. According to Thucydides, the Laeaeans, along with the Agrianes, the Thracian Dii, and other tribes, joined Sitalkes in his unsuccessful campaign against Perdiccas II of Macedon. The coins issued by the Laeaea

thumb|Map location of the Krobyzoi tribe.|307x307px Krobyzoi () is a Thracian, Getic or Dacian tribe, which lived in the southern part of the Danube (according to Hecateus), in Dobruja (Scythia Minor) between Tomis and Callatis (according to Strabo) or near Dionysopolis (according to Pseudo-Scymnus). This location makes modern scholars consider them Getae, the main inhabitants of the land between the Carpathian Mountains and the Haemus. V. Besevliev, a renowned Bulgarian linguist, considered that the toponyms ending in dina (Adina, Amlaidina - today probably the locality 23 August in the count

Thracian tribe of the Astike region