Cadusii

300px|thumb|right|Map depicting the Achaemenid Empire in BC, by [[William Robert Shepherd (1923). The Cadusii are shown in the northern part of the empire.]] The Cadusii (also called Cadusians; , Kadoúsioi; Latin: Cadusii, Arabic:Qādūsīān) were an ancient Iranian tribe that lived in the mountains between Media and the shore of the Caspian Sea, an area bordering that of the Anariacae and Albani. The Dareitai and Pantimati people may have been part of the Cadusii.

ancient Scythian tribe

Parsondes was the king of the Cadusii, who, according to Ctesias, was a Mede of Persian origin.

thumb|Legae The Legae (Latin legae Greek Λῆγαι) were a people on the shores of the Caspian Sea that mythology places between Albania and the country of the Amazons, Scythian roots. The name survives today in the name of the Lezgins, who live in southern Dagestan and northern Azerbaijan.

Artagerses - the leader of the Cadusii, the military leader of the Persian king Artaxerxes II.

persian military campaign against the Cadusii (385 BC)

Cadusia the land of the Cadusians, a satrapy under Tanaoxares.

ancient city in Atropatene

Velenus (Lat.: Balerus or Belenus) was the king of the Cadusii during the reign of Shapur I.

Onaphernes (Wanat–hvarnah, Wanafarna Holofernes) — leader of the cadusii, ally of Cyrus the Great.