Moschi
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Moschi or Moschoi is a term from ancient records, and may refer to one of the following peoples:
- MushkiMushkiThe Mushki were an Iron Age people of Anatolia, known from Assyrian sources. They do not appear in Hittite records. Several authors have connected them with the Moschoi of Greek sources and the Georgian tribe of the Meskhi. Josephus Flavius identified the Moschoi with the Biblical Meshech...
, an Iron Age people of Anatolia, known from Assyrian sources. - MoschiaMoschiaMoschia is a mountainous region of Georgia between Iberia, Armenia, and Colchis. The Moschian Mountains were the connecting chain between the Caucasus and Anti Taurus Mountains...
, a part of the Caucasus Mountains also associated with the Moschi/Moschoi. - MeskhetiMeskhetiMeskheti is in a mountainous area of Moschia and is a former province in southwestern Georgia. The ancient Georgian tribes of Meskhi and Mosiniks were the indigenous population of this region. A majority of the modern Georgian population of Meskheti are descendants of these ancient tribes...
, a region and former province of Georgia located within Moschia - MeskhMeskhetiMeskheti is in a mountainous area of Moschia and is a former province in southwestern Georgia. The ancient Georgian tribes of Meskhi and Mosiniks were the indigenous population of this region. A majority of the modern Georgian population of Meskheti are descendants of these ancient tribes...
s, an ethnic Georgian people of Meskheti - Meskhetian Turks, the former Muslim inhabitants of Meskheti, which is along the border with Turkey.