The Timachi were a

Thracian tribe The Thracians (; ; ) were an Indo-European languages, 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 betwee ...

in living by present-day Timok,

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, then part of Moesia Inferior (87 AD). It may have been an artificial creation by the Romans. In the 1st century before Claudius conquest of Thrace, Pliny the Elder lists them as one of the Moesian tribes alongside Dardanians (Balkans), Dardanians, Celegeri, Triballi and Moesi.Pannonia and Upper Moesia
by András MócsyAlan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin, Andrew Lintott, The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69, Cambridge University Press, 1996
/ref> The territorial unit of the Timachi was small, limited to a single valley system around the Danube where each tributary was guarded by an auxiliary garrison supervised by ''praefecti''.Landscapes of change
by Neil Christie, page 226 They have received or given their name to the Timok region (''TIMACUS''). The Celegeri and Timachi were replaced with the Romanized tribes of Tricornenses and Picenses respectively. The Picenses of Pincum (''Veliko Gradište, Gradište'') "replaced" the Timachi.

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