List of ancient Colchian tribes

The following is a list of ancient Colchian tribes.^[1][2]

List of ancient Colchian tribes

Southern Colchis. From "Reditus Decem Millium Graecorum", 1815

Map of the voyage of the Argonauts by Abraham Ortelius, 1624

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.