Tynteni
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Tynteni, or Tyntenoi was the name of either an obscure tribe of uncertain origin, perhaps Thracians
Thracians
The ancient Thracians were a group of Indo-European tribes inhabiting areas including Thrace in Southeastern Europe. They spoke the Thracian language – a scarcely attested branch of the Indo-European language family...

, living in villages, or of a town named Tynte, that may be the same as Daton, a Greek
Greeks
The Greeks, also known as the Hellenes , are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighboring regions. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world....

 colony in Thrace
Thrace
Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. As a geographical concept, Thrace designates a region bounded by the Balkan Mountains on the north, Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea on the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara on the east...

. The Tynteni and Tynte are only attested in coins. If an actual tribe, the Tynteni were located north of lake Ohrid
Ohrid
Ohrid is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia. It has about 42,000 inhabitants, making it the seventh largest city in the country. The city is the seat of Ohrid Municipality. Ohrid is notable for having once had 365 churches, one for each day of the year and has...

. Their coins, whose minting stops in the early 5th century BC, have similarities of those of Ichnae
Ichnae
Ichnae or Ichnai 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 in epigraphy...

, that was in the archaic age Paeonian but later became Greek. The coin legend is ().

The Atintani seem to have originated from the obscure Tynteni.
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