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The Zydretae (Zudrêtai or Zudreitai) were an ancient people of Colchis
Colchis

In ancient geography, Colchis or Kolkhis was an ancient Georgia , state monarchy and region in the Western Georgia , which played an important role in the ethnic and cultural formation of the Georgians and its subgroups....
 recorded by the Classical
Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome....
 accounts as dwelling on the coast of the Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea), on the southern side of the Apsarus river (modern-day Çoruh
Çoruh River

The ?oruh River or Ch'orokhi River starts in the Mescit Mountains in the north-eastern Turkey and flows into Georgia before it reaches the Black Sea....
/Chorokhi in the borderlands of Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 and Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
), and between the Machelonoi and the Lazi
Laz people

The Laz are an ethnic group who live primarily on the Black Sea coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia . One of the chief tribes of ancient kingdom of Colchis, the Laz were initially Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church, most of whom converted to Sunni Islam during Ottoman rule of Caucasus in the 16th century....
 tribes. The early 2nd century Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 author Arrian
Arrian

File:Flavius_Arrianus.jpgLucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon , known in English as Arrian , and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Ancient Rome historian , a public servant, a military commander and a philosopher of the Roman and Byzantine Greece period....
 lists several neighboring and probably ethnically related tribes on a west to east orientation: the Sannoi, Drilae, Machelonoi, Heniochoi, Zudreitai, and Lazoi (Perip. 1 1.1-2).






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The Zydretae (Zudrêtai or Zudreitai) were an ancient people of Colchis
Colchis

In ancient geography, Colchis or Kolkhis was an ancient Georgia , state monarchy and region in the Western Georgia , which played an important role in the ethnic and cultural formation of the Georgians and its subgroups....
 recorded by the Classical
Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome....
 accounts as dwelling on the coast of the Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea), on the southern side of the Apsarus river (modern-day Çoruh
Çoruh River

The ?oruh River or Ch'orokhi River starts in the Mescit Mountains in the north-eastern Turkey and flows into Georgia before it reaches the Black Sea....
/Chorokhi in the borderlands of Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 and Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
), and between the Machelonoi and the Lazi
Laz people

The Laz are an ethnic group who live primarily on the Black Sea coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia . One of the chief tribes of ancient kingdom of Colchis, the Laz were initially Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church, most of whom converted to Sunni Islam during Ottoman rule of Caucasus in the 16th century....
 tribes. The early 2nd century Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 author Arrian
Arrian

File:Flavius_Arrianus.jpgLucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon , known in English as Arrian , and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Ancient Rome historian , a public servant, a military commander and a philosopher of the Roman and Byzantine Greece period....
 lists several neighboring and probably ethnically related tribes on a west to east orientation: the Sannoi, Drilae, Machelonoi, Heniochoi, Zudreitai, and Lazoi (Perip. 1 1.1-2). The anonymous (probably post-4th century) Periplus Ponti Euxini places them further south between the Akamosis and Archabis rivers. Little is known about the Zydretae’s social and political life, but at that time when Arrian described them (c. 130s AD), they seem to have been subjected to the king of Iberia
Caucasian Iberia

Iberia , also known as Iveria , was a name given by the ancient Ancient Greece and Roman Empire to the ancient Georgia kingdom of Kartli corresponding roughly to the eastern and southern parts of the present day Georgia....
 in eastern Georgia.