Asti (Thracian tribe) explained

Asti (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Αστοί) is the name of a Thracian tribe which is mentioned by Livy.^[1] It is believed that they lived around the old Thracian capital of Bizye.^[2]

List of rulers

A possible continuation of the earlier Odrysian monarchy under a line of kings reigning from Bizye (now Vize) in eastern Thrace.^[3]

• Cotys V, son of ? Beithys (?-by 87 BC)
• Sadalas I, son of Cotys V (by 87–after 79 BC)
  • Amadocus, Odrysian royal sent to the aid of Sulla at Chaeronea in 86 BC
• Cotys VI, son of Sadalas I (by 57–48 BC)^[4]
• Sadalas II, son of Cotys VI (48–42 BC)
• Sadalas III, kinsman of Sadalas II (42-31 BC)
• Cotys VII, son of Sadalas II by Polemocratia (31–18 BC)
• Rhescuporis II, son of Cotys VII by daughter of the Sapaean king Cotys II, killed by the Bessi (18–11 BC)
  • 11 BC Astaean Thrace conferred on Rhescuporis II's maternal uncle, the Sapaean king Rhoemetalces I, by the Roman emperor Augustus, thereby uniting Thrace

See also

• List of Thracian tribes

Notes and References

1. Livy XXXVIII.40
2. A. H. M. Jones, The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces, 2nd Edition
3. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KUMN6htYGkllpRxMe21VvklbH7zyXvFl/view?usp=sharing Mladjov, Thracian Kings, University of Michigan
4. Web site: Kingdoms of Greece - Sapes (Thrace). P L. Kessler. www.historyfiles.co.uk.