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highlands in or near ancient <a href="/wiki/Mygdonia" title="Mygdonia">Mygdonia</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Bryges</b> or <b>Briges</b> (<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>: <span lang="el">Βρύγοι or Βρίγες</span>) is the historical name given to a people of the ancient <a href="/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a>. They are generally considered to have been related to the <a href="/wiki/Phrygians" title="Phrygians">Phrygians</a>, who during <a href="/wiki/Classical_antiquity" title="Classical antiquity">classical antiquity</a> lived in western <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a>. Both names, <i>Bryges</i> and <i>Phrygians</i>, are assumed to be variants of the same root. Based on archaeological evidence, some scholars such as <a href="/wiki/N._G._L._Hammond" title="N. G. L. Hammond">Nicholas Hammond</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eugene_N._Borza" title="Eugene N. Borza">Eugene N. Borza</a> argue that the Bryges/Phrygians were members of the <a href="/wiki/Lusatian_culture" title="Lusatian culture">Lusatian culture</a> that migrated into the southern <a href="/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Late Bronze Age">Late Bronze Age</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bryges&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_ancient_Epirus_and_environs_(English).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Map_of_ancient_Epirus_and_environs_%28English%29.svg/200px-Map_of_ancient_Epirus_and_environs_%28English%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Map_of_ancient_Epirus_and_environs_%28English%29.svg/300px-Map_of_ancient_Epirus_and_environs_%28English%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Map_of_ancient_Epirus_and_environs_%28English%29.svg/400px-Map_of_ancient_Epirus_and_environs_%28English%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1303" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>Ancient tribes in the area with shown Brygian settlements.</figcaption></figure> <p>The earliest mentions of the Bryges are contained in the historical writings of <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>, who relates them to Phrygians, stating that according to the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Macedonians" title="Ancient Macedonians">Macedonians</a>, the Bryges "changed their name" to <i>Phryges</i> after migrating into <a href="/wiki/History_of_Anatolia" title="History of Anatolia">Anatolia</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a movement which is thought to have happened between 1200 BC and 800 BC<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> perhaps due to the <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age_collapse" class="mw-redirect" title="Bronze Age collapse">Bronze Age collapse</a>, particularly the fall of the <a href="/wiki/Hittite_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Hittite Empire">Hittite Empire</a> and the power vacuum that was created. In the Balkans, the Bryges occupied central <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a> and some parts of northern <a href="/wiki/Epirus" title="Epirus">Epirus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-IESE_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IESE-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(region)" title="Macedonia (region)">Macedonia</a>, mainly west of the <a href="/wiki/Axios_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Axios River">Axios river</a>, but also <a href="/wiki/Mygdonia" title="Mygdonia">Mygdonia</a>, which was conquered by the kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Macedon">Macedon</a> in the early 5th century BC.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They seem to have lived peacefully next to the inhabitants of Macedonia.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, <a href="/wiki/Eugammon_of_Cyrene" title="Eugammon of Cyrene">Eugammon</a> in his <i><a href="/wiki/Telegony" title="Telegony">Telegony</a></i>, drawing upon earlier epic traditions, mentions that Odysseus commanded the <a href="/wiki/Epirus" title="Epirus">Epirotian</a> <a href="/wiki/Thesprotians" title="Thesprotians">Thesprotians</a> against the Bryges.<sup id="cite_ref-IESE_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IESE-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Small groups of Bryges, after the migration to Anatolia and the expansion of the kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Macedon" class="mw-redirect" title="Macedon">Macedon</a>, were still left in northern Pelagonia and around Epidamnus. </p><p>Herodotus also mentions that in 492 BC, some Thracian Brygoi or Brygians (Greek: Βρύγοι Θρήικες) fell upon the Persian camp by night, wounding <a href="/wiki/Mardonius_(general)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mardonius (general)">Mardonius</a> himself, though he went on with the campaign until he subdued them.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These Brygoi were later mentioned in Plutarch's <i><a href="/wiki/Parallel_Lives" title="Parallel Lives">Parallel Lives</a></i>, in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Philippi" title="Battle of Philippi">Battle of Philippi</a>, as camp servants of <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Junius_Brutus" title="Marcus Junius Brutus">Brutus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, modern scholars state that a historical link between them and the original Bryges cannot be established.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bryges&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thessaloniki_area_in_Antiquity.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Thessaloniki_area_in_Antiquity.png/200px-Thessaloniki_area_in_Antiquity.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Thessaloniki_area_in_Antiquity.png/300px-Thessaloniki_area_in_Antiquity.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Thessaloniki_area_in_Antiquity.png/400px-Thessaloniki_area_in_Antiquity.png 2x" data-file-width="1062" data-file-height="963" /></a><figcaption>Thessaloniki, location of ancient <a href="/wiki/Mygdonia" title="Mygdonia">Mygdonia</a>, Macedonian home of the Bryges.</figcaption></figure> <p>There is no certain derivation for the name and tribal origin of the Bryges. In 1844, Hermann Müller suggested the name might be related to the same Indo-European root as that of <a href="/wiki/Slavic_languages" title="Slavic languages">Slavic</a> <i>Breg</i> (shore, hill, slope, mountain), <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> <i>Berg</i> (mountain)<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> i.e. IE *<i>bʰerǵʰ</i>. It would then be cognate with Western European tribal names such as the Celtic <a href="/wiki/Brigantes" title="Brigantes">Brigantes</a> and the Germanic <a href="/wiki/Burgundians" title="Burgundians">Burgundians</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and semantically motivated by some aspect of the word meanings "high, elevated, noble, illustrious".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Proper_names">Proper names</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bryges&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Proper names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some personal or geographic names mentioned in ancient authors may be etymologically related to "Bryges": </p> <ul><li>Brygean islands in the supposed <a href="/wiki/Adriatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Adriatic">Adriatic</a> <a href="/wiki/River_delta" title="River delta">delta</a> of <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Istros</a>, mentioned in the <i><a href="/wiki/Argonautica" title="Argonautica">Argonautica</a></i>, an epic poem.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Brygias or Brygium, a city in <i><a href="/wiki/Ohrid" title="Ohrid">Lychnitis</a> palus</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Brygos (son of Aphrodisios) <a href="/wiki/Eponym" title="Eponym">eponym</a> in <a href="/wiki/Durr%C3%ABs" title="Durrës">Epidamnos/Dyrrhachion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brygos" title="Brygos">Brygos</a> (<a href="/wiki/Attica" title="Attica">Attic</a> potter, 5th century BC).</li> <li>Brygindara<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (city), Brygindis (local goddess), Brygindarios<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (citizen) in <a href="/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodes</a> island.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Language">Language</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bryges&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Language"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Phrygian_language" title="Phrygian language">Phrygian language</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bryges&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phrygia" title="Phrygia">Phrygia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armeno-Phrygian" class="mw-redirect" title="Armeno-Phrygian">Armeno-Phrygian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mushki" title="Mushki">Moschoi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(Roman_province)" title="Macedonia (Roman province)">Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thrace" title="Thrace">Thrace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phrygian_cap" title="Phrygian cap">Phrygian cap</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bryges&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Borza, Eugene N. <i>In the Shadow of Olympus: the Emergence of Macedon</i>. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-691-00880-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-691-00880-9">0-691-00880-9</a>, p. 65. "What can be established, despite an extremely slight archaeological record (especially along the slopes of Mt. Vermion), is that two streams of Lusatian peoples moved south in the later Bronze Age, one to settle in Hellespontine Phrygia, the other to occupy parts of western and central Macedonia."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Gordion Excavations 1950-1973: Final Reports Volume 4, Rodney Stuart Young, Ellen L. Kohler, Gilbert Kenneth, p. 53.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Herodotus. <i>Histories</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Hdt.+7.73">7.73</a>. "The Phrygian equipment was very similar to the Paphlagonian, with only a small difference. As the Macedonians say, these Phrygians were called Briges as long as they dwelt in Europe, where they were neighbors of the Macedonians; but when they changed their home to Asia, they changed their name also and were called Phrygians. The Armenians, who are settlers from Phrygia, were armed like the Phrygians. Both these together had as their commander Artochmes, who had married a daughter of Darius."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Borza, Eugene N. <i>In the Shadow of Olympus: the Emergence of Macedon</i>. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-691-00880-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-691-00880-9">0-691-00880-9</a>, p. 65.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-IESE-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-IESE_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-IESE_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEdwards1973" class="citation book cs1">Edwards, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen (1973). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=n1TmVvMwmo4C&dq=Brygi++Albania&pg=RA1-PA709"><i>The Cambridge Ancient History, Part 2, The Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1380-1000 BC</i></a>. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-08691-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-08691-2"><bdi>978-0-521-08691-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+Ancient+History%2C+Part+2%2C+The+Middle+East+and+the+Aegean+Region+c.1380-1000+BC&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+United+Kingdom&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1973&rft.isbn=978-0-521-08691-2&rft.aulast=Edwards&rft.aufirst=Iorwerth+Eiddon+Stephen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dn1TmVvMwmo4C%26dq%3DBrygi%2B%2BAlbania%26pg%3DRA1-PA709&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABryges" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thucydides. <i>The Peloponnesian War</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0200;query=chapter%3D%23245;layout=;loc=2.98.1">2.99</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Borza, Eugene N. <i>In the Shadow of Olympus: the Emergence of Macedon</i>. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-691-00880-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-691-00880-9">0-691-00880-9</a>, p. 65. "There is no record of conflict between the Bryges and the local population; they are described as <i>synoikoi</i> ("fellow inhabitant" or neighbors) of the Macedonians."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Herodotus. <i>Histories</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.parstimes.com/history/herodotus/persian_wars/erato.html">6.45</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Plutarch. <i>The Parallel Lives</i> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Brutus*.html#note38">Brutus</a>).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wilkes, J. J. <i>The Illyrians</i>. Blackwell Publishing, 1992, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-631-19807-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-631-19807-5">0-631-19807-5</a>, p. 111. "The presence of Bryges at Epidamnus in the account of Appian seems to be confirmed by other sources, including the <i>Coastal Voyage</i> attributed to Scymnus of Chios and Stabo's <i>Geography</i>. No later record of their presence in the area survives nor can any link be established with the Bryges of Thrace..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Müller, Hermann. <i>Das nordische Griechenthum und die urgeschichtliche Bedeutung des Nordwestlichen Europas</i>, p. 228.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kluge, <i>Etymologisches Wörterbuch</i>, Berlin: de Gruyter 1995, v. <i>Berg</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPokorny" class="citation web cs1">Pokorny, Julius. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110809064309/http://www.indoeuropean.nl/cgi-bin/startq.cgi?flags=endnnnl&root=leiden&basename=%5Cdata%5Cie%5Cpokorny">"Indogermanisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch"</a>. University of Leiden. pp. 140–141. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.indoeuropean.nl/cgi-bin/startq.cgi?flags=endnnnl&root=leiden&basename=%5Cdata%5Cie%5Cpokorny">the original</a> on 2011-08-09.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Indogermanisches+Etymologisches+Woerterbuch&rft.pages=140-141&rft.pub=University+of+Leiden&rft.aulast=Pokorny&rft.aufirst=Julius&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indoeuropean.nl%2Fcgi-bin%2Fstartq.cgi%3Fflags%3Dendnnnl%26root%3Dleiden%26basename%3D%255Cdata%255Cie%255Cpokorny&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABryges" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollonios Rhodios (translated by Peter Green). <i>The Argonautika</i>. University of California Press, 1997, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-520-07687-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-520-07687-7">0-520-07687-7</a>, p. 223. [Glossary] "<b>Brygean Isles</b>: A group of islands occupying the (supposed) Adriatic delta of the <b>Istros R.</b> (Danube) and sacred to Artemis."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hazlitt, William. <i>The Classical Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane</i>. Whittaker, 1851, p. 81. "Brygias (Brygium, Brucida), capital of the Brygi, Illyria, E. of Lychnitis palus on the Via Egnatia, bet. Lychnidus (13) and Scirtiana (4). <i>Presba</i>."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/oi?ikey=182255&bookid=228&region=4&subregion=10">Epigraphical Database</a> - <i>Epitaph of Brugos, son of Aphrodisios. White limestone cippus. Βρῦγος Ἀ[φ]ροδισίου χαῖρε.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith, William. <i>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography</i>, 1854 (Original from Harvard University), p. 452. "Some of the Brygi were settled in Illyricum, where they dwelt apparently north of Epidamnos. Strabo assigns to them a town Cydriae."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Craik, Elizabeth M. <i>The Dorian Aegean</i>. Routledge, 1980, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7100-0378-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-7100-0378-1">0-7100-0378-1</a>, pp. 47-48. "The Greeks were aware that some such names had a foreign ring: it was said that the dried figs of the Brigindara region were 'barbarian' in name, though 'Attic' in the enjoyment they gave."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Torr, Cecil. <i>Rhodes in Ancient Times</i>. Kessinger Publishing, 2004, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4179-2188-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-4179-2188-9">1-4179-2188-9</a>, p. 5. "The places whose ethnics were Amios, Amnistios, Astypalaeeus, Brycuntios, Brygindarios, Casareus, Diacrios, Dryites, Erinaeus, Istanios, Neopolites, Pontoreus, Rynchidas and Sybithios were probably not in the territory of Lindos; but there is nothing to shew the position of any of these, except that Rynchidas may be the ethnic of Roncyos."</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also_2">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bryges&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Anfosso, Milena. "The Phrygians from Βρίγες to Φρύγες: Herodotus 7.73, or the Linguistic Problems of a Migration”. In: <i>Proceedings of the 31st Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. November 8th and 9th, 2019</i>. Eds. Goldstein, D. M., Jamison, S. W., Vine, B.). 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