Cebrenii

Cebrenii (Greek: Κεβρήνιοι) was a Thracian tribe that lived around the Arisbus river in Thrace. They are mentioned by Polyaenus[1] and Strabo. It can be presumed that some of the Cebrenii migrated alongside other Thracian tribes during the migration waves to Anatolia and settled the region of Cebrenia in Troad establishing Cebrene.

Strabo notes in ''Geography'' that certain people and place names in Thrace had the same names as those in the Troad:

...There is a river Arisbus in Thrace, as we have said before, near which are situated the Cabrenii Thracians. There are many names common to Thracians and Trojans, as Scaei, a Thracian tribe, a river Scaeus, a Scaean wall, and in Troy, Scaean gates. There are Thracians called Xanthii, and a river Xanthus in Troja; an Arisbus which discharges itself into the Hebrus, and an Arisbe in Troja; a river Rhesus in Troja, and Rhesus, a king of the Thracians.[2]

References

  1. ^ Polyaenus: Stratagems - BOOK 7: The generals of the Cebrenii and Sycaeboae, two Thracian tribes, were chosen from among the priests of Hera. Cosingas, according to the tradition of the country, was elected to be their priest and general; but the army took some objection to him, and refused to obey him. To suppress the rebelliousness that had taken hold of the troops, Cosingas built a number of long ladders, and fastened them one to another. He then put out a report, that he had decided to climb up to heaven, in order to inform Hera of the disobedience of the Thracians. The Thracians, who are notoriously stupid and ridiculous, were terrified by the idea of their general's intended journey, and the resulting wrath of heaven. They implored him not to carry out his plan, and they promised with an oath to obey all of his future commands.
  2. ^ Strabo, The Geography of Strabo, Vol. II, trans. H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconer (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856), Book XIII, ch. 1, §21, Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44885/44885-h/44885-h.htm

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