Name
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Location
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Sources
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Byzeres[3]
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south of the Coruh River and Pontic Mountains.
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mentioned in Urartean sources as uiterukhi or uitirukhi.
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Drilae
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southern shores of the Black Sea.
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attested in Xenophon's book Anabasis
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Machelones
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south of the Rioni river.
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Pliny (NH 6.4.11), Lucian, Ptolemy, Arrian.
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Macrones[4]
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near Moschici Mountains[5]
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Herodotus, Xenophon, Strabo (xii.3.18), Stephanus of Byzantium, Pliny, Procopius.
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Marres
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southeast periphery of the Black Sea
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Herodotus
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Mossynoeci
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west of Trebizond
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mentioned in Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica, Xenophon's Anabasis (5.4.26-34), Herodotus.
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Phasians
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eastern part of Pontus
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Xenophon, Hippocrates.
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Sanni
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near Trebizond[6]
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Strabo, Pliny, Arrian, Theodoret of Cyrrus.
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Tubal/Tibareni
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Black Sea coast of Anatolia
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Herodotus, Xenophon, Strabo and other classical authors.
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Zydretae
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southern side of the Coruh river[7]
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Arrian.
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Heniochi
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northwest shores of Colchis[8]
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Aristotle, Artemidorus Ephesius, Ovid, Pliny, Arrian, Strabo and others.
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Lazi
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Phasis river basin
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Scylax, Procopius, Agathias, Pliny.
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Moschi
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Cappadocia
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Hecataeus of Miletus, Herodotus, Strabo, Stephanus of Byzantium.
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Apsilae
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modern Abkhazia[9][10]
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Pliny, Arrian.
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Abasgoi
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western Abkhazia
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Pliny, Strabo, Arrian.
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Coraxi
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northwest shores of Colchis
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Strabo.
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Sanigs
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western Abkhazia
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Pliny, Arrian, Memnon of Heraclea.
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Tzanni
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modern day Rize and Artvin provinces
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Arrian, Procopius.
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Chalybes/Chaldoi
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Chaldia
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Homer, Strabo, Xenophon.
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