Tyragetae


The Tyrageti, Tyragetae, or Tyrangitae, literally, the Getae of the Tyras, were a sub-tribe of the Getae, situated on the river Tyras. They were regarded as an immigrant tribe of European Sarmatia dwelling E. of the river Tyras, near the Harpii and Tagri, and, according to Ptolemy, the northern neighbours of Lower Moesia. Pliny calls them, with more correct orthography, Tyragetae, and represents them as dwelling on a large island in the Tyras.