| Name |
Location |
Sources |
| Byzeres[3] |
south of the Coruh River and Pontic Mountains. |
mentioned in Urartean sources as uiterukhi or uitirukhi. |
| Drilae |
southern shores of the Black Sea. |
attested in Xenophon's book Anabasis |
| Machelones |
south of the Rioni river. |
Pliny (NH 6.4.11), Lucian, Ptolemy, Arrian. |
| Macrones[4] |
near Moschici Mountains[5] |
Herodotus, Xenophon, Strabo (xii.3.18), Stephanus of Byzantium, Pliny, Procopius. |
| Marres |
southeast periphery of the Black Sea |
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 classical authors. |
| Zydretae |
southern side of the Coruh river[7] |
Arrian. |
| Heniochi |
northwest shores of Colchis[8] |
Aristotle, Artemidorus Ephesius, Ovid, Pliny, Arrian, Strabo and others. |
| Lazi |
Phasis river basin |
Scylax, Procopius, Agathias, Pliny. |
| Moschi |
Cappadocia |
Hecataeus of Miletus, Herodotus, Strabo, Stephanus of Byzantium. |
| Apsilae |
modern Abkhazia[9][10] |
Pliny, Arrian. |
| Abasgoi |
western Abkhazia |
Pliny, Strabo, Arrian. |
|
| Soanes |
Heights of Dioscuria, modern Abkhazia. |
Strabo[11] |
| Coraxi |
northwest shores of Colchis |
Strabo. |
| Sanigs |
western Abkhazia |
Pliny, Arrian, Memnon of Heraclea. |
| Tzanni |
modern day Rize and Artvin provinces |
Arrian, Procopius. |
| Chalybes/Chaldoi |
Chaldia |
Homer, Strabo, Xenophon. |
