Thracian tribes

The Triballi (, ) were an ancient people who lived in northern Bulgaria in the region of Roman Oescus up to southeastern Serbia, possibly near the territory of the Morava Valley in the late Iron Age. The Triballi lived between Thracians to the east, Illyrians the west and Celts to the north and were influenced by them. As such in contemporary sources, they are variably described as an independent, Thracian, Illyrian or Celtic tribe. Strabo considered the Triballi as a Thracian people. Most ancient sources considered the Triballi as Thracians, while some few regarded them as Illyrians.

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

region and tribes around Kosovo

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

thumb|upright=1.5|Mygdonia among the other districts of the kingdom of Macedon thumb|upright=1.5|Borders of Mygdonia with Chalcidice

thumb|right|Approximate location of the Edones|305x305px The Edoni (also Edones, Edonians, Edonides) () were a Thracian tribe who dwelt mostly between the Nestus and the Strymon rivers in southern Thrace, but also once dwelt west of the Strymon at least as far as the Axios. They inhabited the region of Mygdonia before the Macedonians drove them out. After that, they settled in the region of Edonis which was named after them. There were a number of Edonian cities in the Classical era, including Drabeskos and Myrkinos.

thumb|right|305x305px|Paeonia, tribes and environs The Odomanti () or Odomantes () were an ancient Balkan tribe. Some regard it as Paeonian, while others claim, that the tribe was with certainty Thracian. The Odomanti are noted by Herodotus, Thucydides, Stephanus of Byzantium and Pliny the Elder.

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,

Dii is also the plural of Latin Deus.

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|right|Approximate location of the Satrai|308x308px The Satrae () were, in ancient geography, a Thracian people, inhabiting part of Mount Pangaeus between the rivers Nestus (Mesta) and Strymon (Struma). According to Herodotus, they were independent in his time, and had never been conquered within the memory of man. They dwelt on lofty mountains covered with forests and snow, and on the highest of these was an oracle of Dionysus, whose utterances were delivered by a priestess.

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

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

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 Sinti|306x306px The Sintians () were a group of people who were known to the Greeks as pirates and raiders. They are also referred to as a Thracian people who once inhabited the area of Sintice and the island of Lemnos which was also called in ancient times Sinteis. Some scholars have suggested that they were not Thracians but Pelasgians, related to another group who lived in Samothrace, also known as Sintians.

thumb|right|Approximate location of the Bisaltai|306x306px The Bisaltae () were a Thracian people on the lower Strymon river, who gave their name to Bisaltia, the district between Amphipolis and Heraclea Sintica (the modern village of Rupite, Bulgaria) on the east and Crestonice on the west. They also made their way into the peninsulas of Acte and Pallene in the south, beyond the river Nestus in the east, and are even said to have raided Cardia.

The Apuli or Biefi were a Dacian tribe centered at the Dacian town Apulon (Latin Apulum) near what is now Alba Iulia in Transylvania, Romania.

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

thumb|right|Expulsion of the Pieres from the region of Olympus to the region of Pangaion by the Macedonians |309x309px The Pieres (Ancient Greek,"Πίερες") were a Thracian tribe connected with the Brygi, that long before the archaic period in Greece occupied the narrow strip of plain land, or low hill, between the mouths of the Peneius and the Haliacmon rivers, at the foot of the great woody steeps of Mount Olympus. This region was named after them as Pieria ().

Thracian tribe of the Astike region

thumb|right|306x306px|Approximate location of the Derrones The Derrones (or Deroni, Derroni) were a Thracian or a Paionian tribe. Our knowledge of them comes from coins bearing variations of the legend of DERRONIKON (ΔΕΡΡΟΝΙΚΟΝ) - DERR (ΔΕΡΡ). The letters used in the coins are Greek, although this does not prove that the Derrones spoke the same language as their southern neighbours. These coins, which were perhaps made for export as much as for internal trade, are traditionally dated to 500–450 BC.

thumb|right|Approximate location of the Sapaioi|307x307px Sapaeans, Sapaei or Sapaioi (Ancient Greek, "Σαπαῖοι") were a Thracian tribe close to the Greek city of Abdera. One of their kings was named Abrupolis and had allied himself with the Romans. They ruled Thrace after the Odrysians until its incorporation by the Roman Empire as a province.