Saspeires

Saspeires (Ancient Greek: Σάσπειρες, Georgian: სასპერები, sasp'erebi, other names include Saspers, Saspines, Sapinians, and Sapirians) are a people of uncertain origin mentioned by Herodotus.

[2][3][4] The toponym of modern-day city İspir and ancient region of Speri is thought by some to be derived from their name.

[5] According to Rayfield, Diauehi is mentioned in the Greek records as Taochoi, but Herodotus in 450 BC refers to them as Sasperi.

the name Sper with a Georgian prefix of place Sa-, which evolved into the term Iberian.

The incredible number of tribes of Mount Caucasus is spoken by ancient as modern historians.

English translation of a 1956 Soviet map purportedly depicting the ethnic situation in the Caucasus during the 5th and 4th centuries BC. The Saspeires are positioned here to the immediate east of the Colchians , who straddle the eastern coast of the Black Sea