Treri
Treri (
In Thrace
The Treri lived in northwest Thrace, in the region of Serdica (now the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia). The Treri of the Serdica region were later absorbed by the Triballi during this latter tribe's eastward migration and disappeared from history afterwards.[1]
In Anatolia
At some point in the 7th century BCE, a portion of the Treres migrated across the Thracian Bosporus and invaded Anatolia.[2] By the later part of the 7th century BCE, these Treres were nomadising in Western Asia along with the Cimmerians.[3]
In 637 BCE, the Treres, under their king Kōbos (
Soon after 635 BCE, with the approval of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which was an ally of Lydia as well as the then superpower in Western Asia,[6] and in alliance with the Lydians,[7] the Scythians under their king Madyes entered Anatolia, expelled the Treres from Asia Minor, and defeated the Cimmerians so that they no longer constituted a threat again, following which the Scythians extended their domination to Central Anatolia[8] until they were themselves expelled by the Medes from Western Asia in the 600s BCE.[4] This final defeat of the Cimmerians was carried out by the joint forces of Madyes, whom Strabo credits with expelling the Treres and Cimmerians from Asia Minor, and of Sadyattes’s son and Ardys’s grandson, the Lydian king Alyattes, whom Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Polyaenus claim finally defeated the Cimmerians.[9][10]
References
- ISBN 978-1-139-05429-4.
- ^ Diakonoff 1985, p. 94-95.
- ISBN 978-8-371-88337-8.
- ^ JSTOR 599752. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ S2CID 165043567. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- ISBN 0-8135-1304-9.
A Scythian army, acting in conformity with Assyrian policy, entered Pontis to crush the last of the Cimmerians.
- ^ Diakonoff 1985, p. 126.
- JSTOR 123971. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
- ^ Ivantchik 1993, p. 95-125.
- ^ Ivantchik 2006, p. 151.
Sources
- ISBN 978-0-521-20091-2.
- ISBN 978-3-727-80876-0.
- ISBN 978-1-588-39205-3.
See also
- Thracian tribes
