Moschii

Moschii

A people of unknown origin inhabiting the extreme eastern end of Anatolia and the southern Caucasus. The Moschii were known as fierce warriors. They may have been related to modern-day Georgians or Armenians. For coastal conditions adjacent to this district, see also Colchis.

Mita...................................................720's BCE

To Van...........................................720's-c. 600

Hratchai...............................................580's

To Media...........................................mid 6th cent. BCE

To Persia.......................................c. 550-333

Achaemenid
Ariomardus........................................480's

A hinterland, influenced to a degree by Armenia, but not controlled per se...

To Armenia.......................................c. 80-66

Mostly to Georgia (Iberia) thereafter - indirect Roman influence from late 1st century BCE...

The Moschii as an identifiable people fade from view after the collapse of the Persian Empire in the 4th century BCE. Claudius Ptolemy, in his Geographos (2nd Cent. CE), refers to the southeastern flanking chain of the Caucasus Mountains as the "Moschici Mons" and even today, in fact, the mountain chain forming part of the frontier between Georgia and Turkey is called (in Russian) the "Meschetskii Chrebet".

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