Bistones

Bistones (Greek: "Βίστονες") is the name of a Thracian people who dwelt between Mount Rhodopé and the Aegean Sea, beside Lake Bistonis, near Abdera^[1] extending westward as far as the river Nestus.^[2] It was through the land of the Bistones that Xerxes marched on his invasion of Greece (480 BC).^[1] The Bistones continued to exist at the time when the Romans were masters of Thrace.^[2] Roman poets sometimes use the names of the Bistones for that of the Thracians in general.^[2] Pliny mentions one town as belonging to the Bistones: Tirida; the other towns on their coast, Dicaea, Ismaron, Parthenion, Phalesina and Maronea, were Greek colonies.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Smith, William, ed. (1878). A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Pearl Street, Franklin Square. p. 143. ark:/13960/t5q818b4j.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 403. ark:/13960/t14m93874.

[:1-1] Smith, William, ed. (1878). A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Pearl Street, Franklin Square. p. 143. ark:/13960/t5q818b4j.

[:0-2] Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 403. ark:/13960/t14m93874.

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