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The
Macrones (Makrones) were an ancient
Colchian tribe in the east of
Pontus, about the Moschici Mountains (modern Yalnizçam Dağlari,
Turkey). They are first mentioned by
Herodotus (c. 450 BC), who relates that they, along with
Moschi,
Tabal,
Mossynoeci, and
Mares, formed the nineteenth
satrapy within the
Achaemenid Persian Empire and fought under
Xerxes I. There are many other subsequent references to them in the
Classical accounts.
Xenophon (430-355 BC) places them east of Trapezus (modern
Trabzon, Turkey). They are described as a powerful and wild people wearing garments made of hair, and as using in war wooden helmets, small shields of wicker-work, and short lances with long points.
Strabo (xii.3.18) remarks, in passing, that the people formerly called Macrones bore in his day the name of
Sanni, a claim supported also by
Stephen of Byzantium, though
Pliny speaks of the Sanni and Macrones as two distinct peoples. The conversion to
Christianity under Justinian helped introduce civilization among them.
The Macrones are identified by modern scholars as one of the Proto-
Georgian tribes whose presence in Northeastern
Anatolia might have preceded the
Hittite period, and who survived the demise of
Urartu. They are frequently regarded as the possible ancestors of the
Mingrelians (cf.
margal, a Mingrelian self-designation), a subethnic group of the Georgian people.
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