Bistones
Bistones
People of ancient Thrace
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]