Apsilae

The Apsilae or Apsili were an ancient tribe inhabiting the territory of Apsilia, in modern Abkhazia.

[1][2] The tribal territory was located on the Black Sea coast of the northwest Caucasus near the estuary of Kodori.

[3] The settlements of Sebastopolis and Tibeleos (associated with Tsebelda by George Hewitt[4]) were located in their territory.

[8] It was absorbed by the surrounding, more powerful principality of the Abasgoi, in approximately 730 AD, and the Apsilae are no longer recorded after the second half of the 8th century.

[2] Later, and after the inclusion of other territories and people including Misiminia, it became the Kingdom of Abkhazia.