Classical-era people mentioned by Herodotus as living in present-day Turkey or Armenia
Alarodians (Ancient Greek: Ἀλαρόδιοι (Alarodioi)) were tribe living in Northern Persia or Armenia during Classical antiquity.
According to Herodotus, the Alarodians were part of the 18th Satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire and formed a special contingent in the grand army of Xerxes I.[1] Some scholars have tried to link the Alarodians to the Urartians, suggesting that Alarodian was a variation of the name Urartian/Araratian. According to this theory, the Urartians of the 18th Satrapy were subsequently absorbed into the Armenian nation.[2] Modern historians, however, have cast doubt on the Alarodian connection to the Urartians.[3]
Nearly nothing is known about Alarodians except that they "were armed like the Colchians and Saspeires," according to Herodotus.[4]
^Lang, pp. 112, 117
^Diakonov, I. The Pre-history of the Armenian People. Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1984.
^Zimansky, Paul "Urartian and Urartians." The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia (2011): 557.[1]
Xerxes I. Some scholars have tried to link the Alarodians to the Urartians, suggesting that Alarodian was a variation of the name Urartian/Araratian....
rejects a connection between the Urartians and the Alarodians. Nearly nothing is known about the Alarodians except that they "were armed like the Colchians...
Northwest Caucasian or other families. However, nothing is known about Alarodians except that they "were armed like the Colchians and Saspeires," according...
of Xerxes I. Some scholars have tried to link the Alarodians to Urartians, suggesting that Alarodian was a variation of the name Urartian/Araratian. According...
Lasonii, Milyae, Moschi, Tibareni, Macrones, Mossynoeci, Mares, Colchians, Alarodians, Saspirians and Red Sea islanders. 1,700,000 Horse cavalry from the Persians...
Babylonian talents of silver 3.6% 20. Maka XVIII the Matienians, Saspires, Alarodians 200 Babylonian talents of silver 1.8% XIX the Mushki, Tibareni, Macrones...
Anatolia. See the article on Northwest Caucasian languages for details. Alarodian is a proposed connection between Northeast Caucasian and the extinct Hurro-Urartian...
and appear to have emerged from the Lesser Caucasus to the east. The Alarodians, Colchians, and Saspires were joined in one command, and all were dressed...
the Caucasus Northeast Caucasian languages North Caucasian languages Alarodian languages Johanna Nichols, "Cechen" and "Ingush" in R. Smeets (ed.), The...
his scholarship; he founded the Journal of Ancient History, studied the Alarodian languages, and translated into Russian the medieval Georgian poet Shota...
classified together as the Hurro-Urartian family. Diakonoff proposed the name Alarodian for the union of Hurro-Urartian and Northeast Caucasian. Some scholars...
Northwest Caucasian or other families. However, nothing is known about Alarodians except that they "were armed like the Colchians and Saspeires," according...
branch of the Northeastern Caucasian language family (which were dubbed Alarodian languages by Diakonoff). Several studies argue that the connection is...
classification Proposed language family Subdivisions Northwest Caucasian Northeast (or Alarodian) ISO 639-5 ccn Glottolog None North Caucasian languages...
difficulties and disagreements faced by linguists working in this area, the term Alarodian being created especially for the Hurro-Urartian-Nakh-Avar languages as...
named Orontes, son of Artasyras, who had Armenian contingents as well as Alarodians. Tiribaz is mentioned as hipparchos (vice-governor) of Armenia under Orontes...
the Tyrrhenian languages and the Northeast Caucasian languages in an Alarodian language family, based on claimed sound correspondences between Etruscan...
with Uruatri/Urartu and the biblical Ararat, and perhaps also with the Alarodians mentioned by Herodotus. It is not used by any of the classical Greek and...
Xerxes. Masistius is first mentioned as the commander of the Saspirian and Alarodian contingents of Xerxes's army which had been gathered for the second invasion...
found in urbanized areas. In antiquity, this region was inhabited by the Alarodians and Caspian tribes. Then this area became alternately part of the Medes...
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