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Caucones, the Glossary

The Caucones (Καύκωνες Kaukônes) were an autochthonous tribe of Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), who later migrated to parts of the Greek mainland (Arcadia, Triphylian Pylos and Elis).^[1]

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Ancient tribes in Greece
Hellenistic-era tribes in the Balkans
Legendary tribes in Greco-Roman historiography

Anatolia

Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.

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Ancient Elis

Elis or Eleia (Ilida, Ēlis; Elean: Ϝᾶλις, ethnonym: Ϝᾱλείοι) is an ancient district in Greece that corresponds to the modern regional unit of Elis.

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Arcadia (region)

Arcadia (Arkadía) is a region in the central Peloponnese.

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Athena

Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Attica (Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or, or), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.

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Bartın River

Bartın River (Bartın Çayı), anciently known as Parthenius or Parthenios (Παρθένιος), is a small river in the east of the Black Sea Region of Turkey.

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Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)

The Bibliotheca (Ancient Greek: label), also known as the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, is a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, genealogical tables and histories arranged in three books, generally dated to the first or second century CE.

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Bithynia

Bithynia (Bithynía) was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Cabeiri

In Greek mythology, the Cabeiri or Cabiri (Κάβειροι, Kábeiroi), also transliterated Kabeiri or Kabiri, were a group of enigmatic chthonic deities.

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Carambis

Carambis or Karambis (Κάραμβις) was an ancient Greek city of ancient Paphlagonia, on a promontory of the same name.

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Carians

The Carians (Κᾶρες, Kares, plural of Κάρ, Kar) were the ancient inhabitants of Caria in southwest Anatolia, who spoke the Carian language. Caucones and Carians are ancient peoples of Anatolia.

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Caucasus Mountains

The Caucasus Mountains is a mountain range at the intersection of Asia and Europe.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.

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Codrus

Codrus (Greek: Κόδρος, Kódros) was the last of the semi-mythical Kings of Athens (r. ca 1089–1068 BC).

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Colophon (city)

Colophon (Κολοφών||) was an ancient city in Ionia.

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Demeter

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter (Attic: Δημήτηρ Dēmḗtēr; Doric: Δαμάτηρ Dāmā́tēr) is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth.

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Dolon (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Dolon (Ancient Greek: Δόλων, gen.: Δόλωνος) fought for Troy during the Trojan War.

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Elefsina

Elefsina (Elefsína) or Eleusis (Eleusís) is a suburban city and municipality in Athens metropolitan area.

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Eleusinian Mysteries

The Eleusinian Mysteries (Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.

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Gediz River

The Gediz River (Gediz Nehri), anciently known as the Hermus River (Ancient Greek: Έρμος), is the second-longest river in Anatolia flowing into the Aegean Sea.

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Geography of Greece

Greece is a country in Southeastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula.

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Gyges of Lydia

Gyges (Lydian: 𐤨𐤰𐤨𐤠𐤮; 𒁹𒄖𒊌𒄖, 𒁹𒄖𒄖; Gugēs; Gygēs; reigned c. 680-644 BC) was the founder of the Mermnad dynasty of Lydian kings and the first known king of the Lydian kingdom to have attempted to transform it into a powerful empire.

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Hades

Hades (Hā́idēs,, later), in the ancient Greek religion and mythology, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous.

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Heraclea Pontica

Heraclea Pontica (Hērákleia Pontikḗ), known in Byzantine and later times as Pontoheraclea (Pontohērakleia), was an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of the river Lycus.

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Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.

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Hipparchus (brother of Hippias)

Hipparchus (Ἵππαρχος||; died 514 BC) was a member of the ruling class of Athens and one of the sons of Pisistratus.

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Hipparchus (dialogue)

The Hipparchus (Ἵππαρχος), or Hipparch, is a dialogue attributed to the classical Greek philosopher and writer Plato.

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Hittites

The Hittites were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia. Caucones and Hittites are ancient peoples of Anatolia.

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Iliad

The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. Caucones and Iliad are Greek mythology.

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Indigenous peoples

There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.

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Ionia

Ionia was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day İzmir, Turkey.

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Karadeniz Ereğli

Karadeniz Ereğli (or Ereğli) is a city in Zonguldak Province of Turkey on the Black Sea shore.

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Kaskians

The Kaska (also Kaška, later Tabalian Kasku and Gasga) were a loosely affiliated Bronze Age non-Indo-European tribal people, who spoke the unclassified Kaskian language and lived in mountainous East Pontic Anatolia, known from Hittite sources. Caucones and Kaskians are ancient peoples of Anatolia.

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Leleges

The Leleges (Λέλεγες) were an aboriginal people of the Aegean region, before the Greeks arrived. Caucones and Leleges are ancient peoples of Anatolia and legendary tribes in Greco-Roman historiography.

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Lycaon (son of Priam)

In Greek mythology, as recorded in Homer's Iliad, Lycaon (Ancient Greek: Λυκάων; gen.: Λυκάονος) was a son of Priam and Laothoe, daughter of the Lelegian king Altes.

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Lycus (mythology)

Lycus (wolf) is the name of multiple people in Greek mythology.

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Lydians

The Lydians (Greek: Λυδοί; known as Sparda to the Achaemenids, Old Persian cuneiform 𐎿𐎱𐎼𐎭) were an Anatolian people living in Lydia, a region in western Anatolia, who spoke the distinctive Lydian language, an Indo-European language of the Anatolian group. Caucones and Lydians are ancient peoples of Anatolia.

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Lyre

The lyre is a stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the lute family of instruments.

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Melantho

In Greek mythology, Melantho (Ancient Greek: Μελανθώ) may refer to the following women.

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Mentha

Mentha (also known as mint, from Greek μίνθα, Linear B mi-ta) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae (mint family).

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Messenia

Messenia or Messinia (Μεσσηνία) is a regional unit (perifereiaki enotita) in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese region, in Greece.

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Miletus

Miletus (Mī́lētos; 𒈪𒅋𒆷𒉿𒀭𒁕 Mīllawānda or 𒈪𒆷𒉿𒋫 Milawata (exonyms); Mīlētus; Milet) was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Ionia.

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Mimnermus

Mimnermus (Μίμνερμος Mímnermos) was a Greek elegiac poet from either Colophon or Smyrna in Ionia, who flourished about 632–629 BC (i.e. in the 37th Olympiad, according to Suda).

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Nestor (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Nestor of Gerenia (Νέστωρ Γερήνιος, Nestōr Gerēnios) was a legendary king of Pylos.

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Odyssey

The Odyssey (Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. Caucones and Odyssey are Greek mythology.

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Paeonians

Paeonians were an ancient Indo-European people that dwelt in Paeonia.

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Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias (Παυσανίας) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD.

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Pelasgians

The name Pelasgians (Pelasgoí, singular: Πελασγός Pelasgós) was used by Classical Greek writers to refer either to the predecessors of the Greeks, or to all the inhabitants of Greece before the emergence of the Greeks. Caucones and Pelasgians are ancient peoples of Anatolia, Greek mythology and Hellenistic-era tribes in the Balkans.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucones

Also known as Kaukones.

, Phonology, Pisistratus, Pylia, Pylos, Smyrna, Thebes, Greece, Thrace, Tium, Triphylia, Troy, Turkey.

Caucones, the Glossary

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See also

Ancient tribes in Greece

Hellenistic-era tribes in the Balkans

Legendary tribes in Greco-Roman historiography

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