Triballi

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The Triballi were an ancient Indo-European people who inhabited the central Balkans, often interacting and clashing with neighboring Thracian, Macedonian, and later Roman powers.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European people
ancient people
conflictWith Alexander the Great
Ancient Macedonians
linked to: Ancient Macedonian

Philip II of Macedon
Roman Republic
Thracian tribes
linked to: Thracians
culturalSphere Thracian world
linked to: Thracians
defeatedBy Alexander the Great
Philip II of Macedon
Roman forces
economy agriculture
pastoralism
raiding and warfare
ethnicity Thracian-related people
historicalSourceType Greek historians
Roman historians
inhabitedRegion Moesia
area between the Morava and Iskar rivers
central Balkans
territory north of ancient Macedonia
territory west of the lower Danube
languageFamily Indo-European languages
laterFate assimilated into surrounding Balkan populations
subjugated by Macedonians
subjugated by Romans
mentionedBy Demosthenes
Herodotus
Pliny the Elder
Strabo
Thucydides
militaryCharacteristic warrior people
modernLocationApproximation parts of modern Bulgaria
parts of modern Serbia
neighboringPeople Dardanians
linked to: Dardania

Getae
Illyrians
Macedonians
Thracians
neighboringPower Ancient Macedonia
linked to: Macedon

Odrysian Kingdom
linked to: Kingdom of Thrace

Roman Republic
notableEvent campaign of Alexander the Great against the Triballi
campaign of Philip II against the Triballi
politicalOrganization tribal society
religion Thracian-type cults
polytheism
timePeriod 4th century BCE
Classical antiquity
Hellenistic period

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Thracians subgroup Triballi