Doberes (Paeonian tribe)

Doberes (Ancient Greek: Δόβηρες; Latin: Doberi[1]) were an ancient Paeonian[2] tribe in Thrace.

Paeonia,tribes and Environs

Herodotus describes the Doberes as inhabiting, with the Paeoplae, the country to the north of Mount Pangaeum,[3] these being precisely the tribes whom he had before associated with the inhabitants of the Lake Prasias.[4] Their position must, therefore, be sought to the east of the Strymon: they shared Mt. Pangaeum with the other Paeonians and Pierians, and dwelt probably on the north side, where, in the time of the Roman Empire, there was a mutatio, or place for changing horses, on the Via Egnatia, called Domeros, between Amphipolis and Philippi, 13 M. P. from the former and 19 M. P. from the latter.[5]

See also

References
  1. Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.10.
  2. The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus, John M. Marincola, and Aubery de Selincourt, ISBN 0-14-044908-6, 2003, page 452: "... Then he passed through the country of the Doberes and Paeoplae (Paeonian tribes living north of Pangaeum) ..."
  3. Herodotus. Histories. 7.113.
  4. Herodotus. Histories. 5.16.
  5. Itin. Hierosol.; comp. Tafel, de Via Egnat. p. 10.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Doberus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


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