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Temporary area of some tribes including Astae and Sapei

Asti (Greek: Αστοί) is the name of a Thracian tribe which is mentioned by Livy. It is believed that they lived around the old Thracian capital of Bizye.

List of rulers

A possible continuation of the earlier Odrysian monarchy under a line of kings reigning from Bizye (now Vize) in eastern Thrace.

• Cotys V, son of ? Beithys (?-by 87 BC)
• Sadalas I, son of Cotys V (by 87–after 79 BC)
  • Amadocus, Odrysian royal sent to the aid of Sulla at Chaeronea in 86 BC
• Cotys VI, son of Sadalas I (by 57–48 BC)
• Sadalas II, son of Cotys VI (48–42 BC)
• Sadalas III, kinsman of Sadalas II (42-31 BC)
• Cotys VII, son of Sadalas II by Polemocratia (31–18 BC)
• Rhescuporis II, son of Cotys VII by daughter of the Sapaean king Cotys II, killed by the Bessi (18–11 BC)
  • 11 BC Astaean Thrace conferred on Rhescuporis II's maternal uncle, the Sapaean king Rhoemetalces I, by the Roman emperor Augustus, thereby uniting Thrace

Family tree of Astaean kings in Thrace

Cotys IV in inner Thrace ODRYSIAN KINGS

Dyegilos king of Caeni

Bithys in inner Thrace BRANCH OF ASTAEAN KINGS

Cotys V

Sadalas I

Cotys VI

Sadalas II

Sadalas III

Cotys VII

(woman)

Rhoemetalces I king of Sapaeans

Rhescuporis II (Astaean)

SAPAEAN KINGS

See also

• List of Thracian tribes