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Herodotus regarded the Colchians as "dark-skinned (μελάγχροες) [54] and woolly-haired" and calls them Egyptians. [55] Herodotus states that the Colchians, with the Ancient Egyptians and the Ethiopians , were the first to practice circumcision , a custom which he claims that the Colchians inherited from remnants of the army of Pharaoh ...
Herodotus Mossynoeci: west of Trebizond mentioned in Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica, Xenophon's Anabasis (5.4.26-34), Herodotus. Phasians: eastern part of Pontus Xenophon, Hippocrates. Sanni: near Trebizond [6] Strabo, Pliny, Arrian, Theodoret of Cyrrus. Tubal/Tibareni: Black Sea coast of Anatolia Herodotus, Xenophon, Strabo and other ...
The Saspeires are positioned here to the immediate east of the Colchians, who straddle the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Saspeires (Ancient Greek: Σάσπειρες, Georgian: სასპერები, sasp'erebi, other names include Saspers, Saspines, Sapinians, and Sapirians) are a people of uncertain origin mentioned by Herodotus. [1]
Herodotus cautioned the reader that much of this story came second hand via Egyptian priests, but also noted that the Colchians were commonly believed to be Egyptian colonists. [ 4 ] Herodotus also relates that when Sesostris defeated an army without much resistance he erected a pillar in their capital with a vulva on it to symbolize the fact ...
Archaeological findings clearly indicate the weapons used by Colchian soldiers. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that the Colchians, Mossynoecians, and Tibarenes were part of the Persian army that the Greeks fought against. The Colchian lands, divided into tribes, did not have a strong and organized military system.
Ancient sources including Herodotus and Jerome described Colchians as having dark skin, "wooly" hair, and an African origin. Patrick English investigated this hypothesis further in 1959, citing ancient accounts of the region as well as anthropological and linguistic evidence.
Colchians. Byzeres (The ... Tibareni (several Classical Antiquity authors such as Herodotus, Xenophon and Strabo believed that they were of Scythian origin) Kaskians
Macrones, occupying area around Trapezos marked as Macronia, next to Tibareni (Thybaraena) Macrones in a map of the voyage of the Argonauts by Abraham Ortelius, 1624. The Macrones (Georgian: მაკრონები, mak'ronebi; Ancient Greek: Μάκρωνες, Makrōnes) were an ancient Colchian tribe in the east of Pontus, about the Moschici Mountains (modern Yalnizçam Dağlari, Turkey [1]).