• Nestus. It was through the land of the Bistones that Xerxes marched on his invasion of Greece (480 BC). The Bistones continued to exist at the time when...
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    Cyrene. He lived on the shores of the Black Sea ruling the warlike tribe of Bistones. He is known for his man-eating horses, which Heracles stole in order to...
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  • of Ares whom they worshipped in the form of an upright standing sword. Bistones Bistonis, the nymph who lives at Lake Bistonis. Smith, The Rev. T.; Lempriere...
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    ruler of the Bistonian Pieria, a region inhabited by the Thracian tribes Bistones and Pieres but others have identified him as a member of the Thracian tribe...
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    were called "ktisti". In myth, Orpheus rebuked the sexual advances of the Bistones women after the death of Eurydice, and was killed for not engaging in the...
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    home to numerous other tribes, such as the Edones, Bisaltae, Cicones, and Bistones in addition to the tribe that Homer specifically calls the "Thracians"...
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  • Heracles capture the four savage mares of Diomedes the king of the Thracian Bistones. Heracles overpowered the grooms and drove the Mares of Diomedes into the...
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    (I10): "The Thracian tribes lying along his route were the Paeti, Cicones, Bistones, Sapaei, Dersaei, Edoni, and Satrae; […]". Mogens Herman Hansen, An Inventory...
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    I10 The Thracian tribes lying along his route were the Paeti, Cicones, Bistones, Sapaei, Dersaei, Edoni, and Satrae; ..." Thracian tribes Wikimedia Commons...
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    they appear in the 2nd century BC to 1st century BC Beni Bessi Bisaltae Bistones Bithyni or Bythini, migrated to Asia minor Brenae Crousi Cebrenii Coelaletae...
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    Trausi initially lived to the north-east of the Thracian tribe of the Bistones. By the early 2nd century BC, the Trausi had migrated to the east of the...
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  • Tirida, Diomedis equorum stabulis dirum." This Diomedes was the king of the Bistones who was in the habit of throwing strangers to be devoured by his savage...
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    Theano, the wife of Antenor Diomedes of Thrace, Giant that ruled over the Bistones Lycurgus, of the Edoni Oeagrus, father of Orpheus and Linus Orpheus of...
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  • on the coast of ancient Thrace on Lake Bistonis, in the country of the Bistones. Stephanus of Byzantium wrote that it took its name from the Dicaeus (Ancient...
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    "Bistonis" (Βιστονίς λίμνη), a great Thracian lake in the country of the Bistones, from whom it derived its name. The water of the lake was brackish and...
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    appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it shown as having a mill: "Bistone: Roland, Norman and Pirot from Eudo FitzHubert; William Speke; Thurstan...
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  • Marcomannic Wars (166-180 AD), according to Julius Capitolinus" Bisaltae Bistones Bithyni or Bythini, migrated to Asia Minor or Anatolia Brenae Caeni / Kainoi...
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  • leads to the Green at Beeston, mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Bistone. Turn right along the Green and left into the Crescent. To continue the...
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