Mariandinos

The Mariandians (Mariandyni, Μαριανδυνοί, Μαριανδηνοί, or Μαρυανδυνοί) lived in the northwestern territory of Anatolia. It was a Thracian town of Bithynia between the rivers Sangario and Billaeus, east of the Tinios or Bithynia. According to Scylax the river Hypius was the one that formed the border between Bithinians and Mariandinos. Strabo considers them a branch of the Bithinians, but Herodotus clearly mentions the Mariandians as a non-Thracian people and the Bithynians as Thracians; In addition, in the Persian army the Bithinians and Mariandinos appear separately and the armament and dress of the Mariandinos was more similar to that of the Paflagonios than to that of the Bithinians. Both towns were part of the Third Persian satrap and the country was called Mariandinia (Mariandynia, Μαριανδυνία).

The main city of its territory was Heraclea Pontica, whose Greek inhabitants reduced to the Mariandinos to a state of servitude.

In Greek mythology, it was one of the territories where the Argonauts arrived on their journey to the Colchis.

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