Maedi

The Maedi (also Maidans, Maedans, or Medi; Ancient Greek: Μαῖδοι or Μαιδοί) were a Thracian tribe in antiquity.

According to Plutarch,[11] the Maedi rebelled against their Macedonian overlords when King Philip II of Macedon was besieging Byzantium in 340 BC.

The sixteen-year-old Alexander the Great, who had been left as regent by his father, led an army against the Maedi and founded his first city Alexandroplis.

[12] The ancient historian and biographer Plutarch describes Spartacus as "a Thracian of nomadic stock,"[13] in a possible reference to the Maedi.

Aristotle recorded[citation needed] that bolinthos was the Maedan word for a species of wild aurochses or wisents that lived in the region.