Homer says that the Enetoí lived on the southern coast of the Black Sea in northern Paphlagonia at the time of the Trojan War (c. 1200 BC).
Their combined territory is said to hold "Cytorus and the country round Sesamus, with the cities by the river Parthenius, Cromna, Aegialus, and lofty Erithini".
Strabo notes that the scholars of his own time were confused by the supposed identity of the Enetoí with none present in Paphlagonia.
(Both theories conflated the Eneti with the Adriatic Veneti, whose name was similar in Greek transcription but whose language and artifacts bear no obvious connection to ancient Anatolia.)
Strabo further reports that one village is identified as the Enetoí at a location on the Aegialus 10 schoeni from Amastris.