Mysians

Mysians /ˈmiːʒənz, ˈmɪʒənz/ (Latin: Mysi; Ancient Greek: Μυσοί, Mysoí) were the inhabitants of Mysia, a region in northwestern Asia Minor.

Their first mention is by Homer, in his list of Trojans allies in the Iliad, and according to whom the Mysians fought in the Trojan War on the side of Troy, under the command of Chromis and Ennomus the Augur, and were lion-hearted spearmen who fought with their bare hands.

[2] He also mentions a movement of Mysians and associated peoples from Asia into Europe still earlier than the Trojan War, wherein the Mysians and Teucrians had crossed the Bosphorus into Europe and, after conquering all of Thrace, pressed forward till they came to the Ionian Sea, while southward they reached as far as the river Peneus.

[4] Citing the historian Xanthus, he also reports that the name of the people was derived from the Lydian name for the oxya tree.

A short inscription which could be in Mysian and which dates from between the 5th and 3rd centuries BC was found in Üyücek, near Kütahya, and seems to include Indo-European words, but it has not been deciphered.