The Trallians, Tralles or Tralli (Greek: Τράλλεις, Tralleis) were a Thracian tribe that served Hellenistic kings.
[1] They were barbarians, employed as mercenaries, executioners and torturers in Asia.
[2] Strabo (64 BC–24 AD) in Geographica attributed the foundation of the ancient city of Tralles, in the valley of the Maeander River in Asia Minor to Trallians and Argives.
[1] W. M. Ramsay (1851–1939) believed that the Trallians, a warrior tribe, had crossed the Hellespont and settled Mysia, Lydia, Phrygia, Caria and Lycia,[3] in what is today western Turkey.
Livy (59 BC–17 AD) called them Illyrians,[4] because a branch of the tribe migrated to Illyria.