Moschoi

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Map from the 18th century with the settlement area of ​​the Moschi northwest and southwest of the Caucasus

The Moscher (pronunciation: / -sç- /; Greek Μόσχοι, Latin Moschi) were a tribal association of Asia Minor . Their settlement areas reached from the eastern south coast of the Pontos Euxeinos to the sources of the river Phasis (now Rioni in the Caucasus ). Together with the adjacent Tibarenern , macro formers , Mossynoikern and MarErn they formed the 19th satrapy in the Persian Empire . According to Pomponius Mela (Chorographia 1, 12) the Comars lived on the coast of the Caspian Sea, Massagetae , Cadusier , Hyrkanians and Hiberer, beyond the hyperboreans and Amazon , and above this the Cercetae , Kimmerer , Cissianti , Achaei , Georgili , Moschi, Phoristae , Rimphaces and Arimphaei .

Flavius ​​Josephus equates them, presumably wrongly, with the Mesech (Meschech) mentioned in the Bible .

The Moschers are equated by some authors with the Muški / Muschki, but this also seems doubtful. Most researchers assume that the Muški resided in Cilicia or in the vicinity of Tabal , that is, on the eastern Mediterranean, not the Black Sea.

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literature

  • E. Dhorme, Les Peuples issus de Japhet d'après le chapitre X de la Genèse. Syria, 13/1, 1932, 28-49.
  • Giorgi Leon Kavtaradze: Problems of the historical geography of Anatolia and Transcaucasia in the first millennium BC Chr. In: Orbis Terrarum 2, 1996, ISSN  1385-285X (incorrect), pp. 191-216, ( online ).