- Apsinthii
Apsinthii — Thracian tribes that occupied the region east of the Thracian Chersonese in the area of Kurudag to the upper reaches of the modern Maritsa River. Aenos and its surroundings belonged to the Apsinthii; it was also called Apsinthus, and the Apsinthii are mentioned by Herodotus as tribes bordering the Thracian Chersonese. The Apsinthus River is mentioned by Dionysius Periegetes. The city of Apsinthus near Mount Ossa is also mentioned by Steph. Byz. The modern city of Enez is a city and district in Eastern Thrace, or Edirne, southwest of the mouth of the Maritsa River. The pre-Turkish name of the city was Ainos (Greek: Αἶνος, Latin: Aenus, Aenos).
Herodotus tells of the punishment of the Persian Oeobazus, whom the Thracian Apsinthii collectively sacrificed to the god of their lands, Plistor. He further mentions another Persian general, Artayctes. Judging by the Persian generals Oeobazus and Artayctes, this refers to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480–479 BC. Artayctes, son of Cherasmis, was a Persian general who commanded the Macrones and Mossynoeci in the army of Xerxes.
VARIANT NAMES: Greek. Αψινθοι, Αψινθιοι, Russian. Apsinty, Apsintii.
Sources:
Ethnogenesis of the Abkhazians. D.A. Arshba, 2015