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Saspeirs , Saspeirs or Sasperas ( Georgian სასპერები [Sasperby]) - According to one version, the ancient Georgian tribes [3] [4] [5] , according to another hypothesis, they are also considered to be Scythians by origin [6] , mentioned by Herodotus and placed between the lands of the Medes and kolkhov [7] . In the VI century BC. e. were conquered by the Achaemenid empire and, together with part of other Hurrian (Alarodia), possibly Luvian (Matian) and South Kartvelian tribes, made up its 19th satrapy . After the fall of the invaders, they formed the core of the Iberian state [8] .
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The name of this tribe is of Scythian origin and was formed with the help of the Georgian prefix of the place -Sa. In ancient Greek sources, this tribe is called "Suspeira." [9] [10]
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- ↑ Collective of authors. World History: In ten volumes . - M. Gos. ed. Political Literature, 1956-07-06. - S. 138. - 929 p.
- ↑ Description = The Ethnic Map of Caucasus V - IV BC, by "The World History", Vol.2, 1956, Russia Source = The Ethnic Map of Caucasus V - IV BC, (the fragment of Ethnic Map of Europe V - IV BC), http://historic.ru/books/item/f00/s00
- ↑ Grammenos, Dēmētrios. Ancient Greek colonies in the Black Sea 2, Volume 2 / Dēmētrios Grammenos, Elias Petropoulos. - Archaeopress, 2007. - P. 1113–1114.
... such Georgian tribes as: .. sasperians ... - ↑ Salia, Kalistrat. Histoire de la nation géorgienne . - 1980. - P. 30–41.
La plupart des organizations tribales kartveliennes ont eu une influence importante sur l'émergence et le développement de l'État géorgien. Parmi eux se trouvent moschinos, colchois, moskhois, tubals (tibareniens), saspirs, haldiens, maras, manrals, soaniens et macroniens. - ↑ Reisner, Oliver. Identity Studies, Vol 1 / Oliver Reisner, Ghia Nodia. - Ilia State University Press, 2009 .-- P. 51.
Georgians are one of the most ancient people. Georgian (kartvel) tribes - Meskhs, Kolkhs, Saspers, Ibers, Chans, Svans are mentioned as early as in Ancient Eastern and Classical historical sources. - ↑ Armenia as Xenophon saw it , Vahan M. Kurkjian, 1958
- ↑ Story 1: 104
- ↑ History , 3:94
- ↑ Georgia. Crossroads of Empires. A Three Thousand Years Story by Donald Rayfield . Quote: “Sasperi is obviously a Kartvelian name, since the prefix is attached to the root of the sperm, which is the prototype of the word Iberus. (The modern city of Ispir in Northeast Turkey is undoubtedly associated with the ethnonym sper.) "
- ↑ B.A. Harutyunyan. On the ethnicity of the population of the Chorokh river basin in the 7th – 4th centuries BC e. . Historical and Philological Journal No. 1-2. pp. 233-246. ISSN 0135-0536 (1998). Date of treatment September 4, 2012. Archived October 19, 2012. “The excursion we made gives us every right to completely but completely consider the issue of the ethnic essence of the saspeirs or sassirs, as well as the Alarodians. In the light of our research, the Suspeirs were a part, perhaps, the predominant part of the Aspire, settled on the territory of present-day Georgia. Front "s", no doubt, is of Georgian origin ... "