Tynteni, or Tyntenoi ( grc, Τυντενοί) was the name of an Illyrian tribe, living in villages, or of a town named Tynte, that may be the same as
Daton, a
Greek
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colony in
Thrace
Thrace (; el, Θράκη, Thráki; bg, Тракия, Trakiya; tr, Trakya) or Thrake is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe, now split among Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, which is bounded by the Balkan Mountains to ...
. The Tynteni and Tynte are only attested in coins. If an actual tribe, the Tynteni were located north of lake
Ohrid
Ohrid ( mk, Охрид ) is a city in North Macedonia and is the seat of the Ohrid Municipality. It is the largest city on Lake Ohrid and the eighth-largest city in the country, with the municipality recording a population of over 42,000 inh ...
. Their coins, whose minting stops in the early 5th century BC, have similarities of those of
Ichnae
Ichnae or Ichnai (Greek: Ἴχναι) an ancient town of Bottiaea, Macedonia on the Thermaic Gulf, above the mouth of Loudias river, near modern Koufalia ; built by the Macedonians according to Hazlitt, although Ichnaeans appear independently i ...
, that was in the archaic age
Paeonian
In antiquity, Paeonia or Paionia ( grc, Παιονία, Paionía) was the land and kingdom of the Paeonians or Paionians ( grc, Παίονες, Paíones).
The exact original boundaries of Paeonia, like the early history of its inhabitants, a ...
but later became
Greek
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Greece
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. The coin legend is '' el, ΤΥΝΤΕΝΟΝ''.
The
Atintani seem to have originated
[The Cambridge ancient history: Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean... by John Boardman, 1988, , page 496, "The issuing authorities were tribes as far afield as the 'Tynteni' (later Atintani)..."] from the obscure Tynteni.
See also
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Paeonia (kingdom)
In antiquity, Paeonia or Paionia ( grc, Παιονία, Paionía) was the land and kingdom of the Paeonians or Paionians ( grc, Παίονες, Paíones).
The exact original boundaries of Paeonia, like the early history of its inhabitants, a ...
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List of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia
This is a list of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia ( grc, Θρᾴκη, Δακία) 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 o ...
References
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Paeonia (kingdom)
Ancient tribes in the Balkans
Illyrian tribes