Tibareni

The Tibareni (Greek: Τιβαρηνοί,[1] Τιβαρανοί[1]) were a people residing on the coast of ancient Pontus referred to in Herodotus, Xenophon, Strabo and other classical authors.

[9] Strabo describes them as inhabiting the mountains branching off from the Montes Moschici and Colchici, and mentions Cotyura as their principal town.

[2][5][13] Their arms consisted of wooden helmets, small shields, and short spears with long points.

[15][16][17][18] All three tribes — Tibareni, Chalybes and Mosynoeci — still neighbored each other, along the Black Sea coast of Anatolia (ancient Pontus), as late as in Roman times.

Tibareni, along with the neighbouring tribes, were subjugated by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th-5th centuries BC and were incorporated into the 19th satrapy.

Tibareni occupied the country between the Chalybes and the Mosynoeci , on the east of the river Iris .
Tibarenia in a map of the voyage of the Argonauts by Abraham Ortelius , 1624