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Krobyzoi () is a
Krobyzoi () is a Thracian
The Thracians (; ; ) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe in ancient history.. "The Thracians were an Indo-European people who occupied the area that today is shared between north-eastern Greece, ...
, Getic or Dacian tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...
, which lived in the southern part of the Danube (according to Hecateus), in Dobruja
Dobruja or Dobrudja (; or ''Dobrudža''; , or ; ; Dobrujan Tatar: ''Tomrîğa''; Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and ) is a Geography, geographical and historical region in Southeastern Europe that has been divided since the 19th century betw ...
( Scythia Minor) between Tomis and Callatis (according to Strabo
Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-si ...
) or near Dionysopolis (according to Pseudo-Scymnus). This location makes modern scholars consider them Getae, the main inhabitants of the land between the Carpathian Mountains and the Haemus. V. Besevliev, a renowned Bulgarian linguist, considered that the toponyms ending in dina (Adina, Amlaidina - today probably the locality 23 August in the county of Constanța
Constanța (, , ) is a city in the Dobruja Historical regions of Romania, historical region of Romania. A port city, it is the capital of Constanța County and the country's Cities in Romania, fourth largest city and principal port on the Black ...
and Mangalia - and Asbolodina - mentioned in the Callatian territory) can be attributed to the Krobyzoi, which, as can be seen, would coincide with their location by Strabo
Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-si ...
.
About their history, Philarchus, documenting the period 272 BC-220 BC, says that they had a leader, Isanthes, renowned for his beauty, power and wealth, as well as for the fact that "he surpassed all his people in debauchery" (the testimony is found in the historian Phylarchus and Athenalos). The Byzantine lexicographer Suidas attributed to them the belief in the immortality of the soul, widespread among the Getic peoples.
This location leads modern scholars to consider them Getae, the main inhabitants of the land between the Carpathian Mountains and Haemus.
See also
* List of Dacian tribes *List of Thracian tribes
This is a list of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia () including possibly or partly Thracian or Dacian tribes, and non-Thracian or non-Dacian tribes that inhabited the lands known as Thrace and Dacia. A great number of Ancient Greek tribes lived ...
* List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia
This is a list of ancient cities, towns, villages, and fortresses in and around Thrace and Dacia. A number of these settlements were Thracian and Dacians, Dacian, but some were Celtic, Ancient Greece, Greek, Roman Empire, Roman, Paeonian, or Per ...
References
Further reading
*Hecataeus of Miletus
Hecataeus of Miletus (; ; c. 550 – c. 476 BC), son of Hegesander, was an early Greek historian and geographer.
Biography
Hailing from a very wealthy family, he lived in Miletus, then under Persian rule in the satrapy of Lydia ...
* Strabon
* Pseudo-Scymnus
Pseudo-Scymnus is the name given by Augustus Meineke to the unknown author of a work on geography written in Classical Greek, the ''Periodos to Nicomedes''. It is an account of the world ('' periegesis'') in 'comic' iambic trimeters which is dedic ...
* Phylarchus
* Athenalos (Athenaeus
Athenaeus of Naucratis (, or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and Grammarian (Greco-Roman), grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century ...
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* Suidas
* V. Besevliev
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