Syrmus
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Syrmus or Syrmos was a king of the West Thracian
Triballi
tribe during the 330s BC.
He is mentioned by Arrian
, Strabo
and Plutarch
.
After the death of Philip, Alexander the Great passed through the lands of the Odryssians in 335-334 BC, crossing the Haemus ranges and after three encounters (Battle of Haemus, Battle at Lyginus river, Battle at Peuce Island) defeated and drove the Triballians to the junction of the Lyginus at the Danube
, 3,000 Triballi were killed, the rest fled. Syrmos and his people took refuge in the Danubian island of Peukê where most of the remnants of defeated Thracians exiled. The successful Macedonian attacks terrorized the tribes around the Danube, the autonomous Thracian tribes sent tributes for peace, Alexander was satisfied with his operations and accepted peace because of his greater wars in Asia.
Though Syrmus was later considered the eponym
ous founder of Sirmium
, the roots are different, and the two words only became conflated later.
Thracians
The ancient Thracians were a group of Indo-European tribes inhabiting areas including Thrace in Southeastern Europe. They spoke the Thracian language – a scarcely attested branch of the Indo-European language family...
Triballi
Triballi
The Triballi were an ancient tribe whose dominion was around the plains of southern modern Serbia and west Bulgaria, at the Angrus and Brongus and the Iskur River, roughly centered where Serbia and Bulgaria are joined....
tribe during the 330s BC.
He is mentioned by Arrian
Arrian
Lucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon , known in English as Arrian , and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Roman historian, public servant, a military commander and a philosopher of the 2nd-century Roman period...
, Strabo
Strabo
Strabo, also written Strabon was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher.-Life:Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus , a city which he said was situated the approximate equivalent of 75 km from the Black Sea...
and Plutarch
Plutarch
Plutarch then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia...
.
After the death of Philip, Alexander the Great passed through the lands of the Odryssians in 335-334 BC, crossing the Haemus ranges and after three encounters (Battle of Haemus, Battle at Lyginus river, Battle at Peuce Island) defeated and drove the Triballians to the junction of the Lyginus at the Danube
Danube
The Danube is a river in the Central Europe and the Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is classified as an international waterway....
, 3,000 Triballi were killed, the rest fled. Syrmos and his people took refuge in the Danubian island of Peukê where most of the remnants of defeated Thracians exiled. The successful Macedonian attacks terrorized the tribes around the Danube, the autonomous Thracian tribes sent tributes for peace, Alexander was satisfied with his operations and accepted peace because of his greater wars in Asia.
Though Syrmus was later considered the eponym
Eponym
An eponym is the name of a person or thing, whether real or fictitious, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named...
ous founder of Sirmium
Sirmium
Sirmium was a city in ancient Roman Pannonia. Firstly mentioned in the 4th century BC and originally inhabited by the Illyrians and Celts, it was conquered by the Romans in the 1st century BC and subsequently became the capital of the Roman province of Lower Pannonia. In 294 AD, Sirmium was...
, the roots are different, and the two words only became conflated later.