- The
Phasians (Georgian: ფაზიელები Pazielebi; Gr****: Φασιανοί Phasianoi; Latin: Phasiani) were an
ancient tribe located in the
eastern part of Pontus. The...
- The
Phasian Bird is a 1948
novel by the
English writer Henry Williamson. Set in
Norfolk during World War II, the
novel interweaves the
stories of a hybrid...
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rulers are
claimed to have
descended from Aeëtes, such as a king of the
Phasians from Xenophon's
Anabasis and Saulaces, a gold-rich king of Colchis, from...
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According to one version, the name is
derived from an
ancient tribe called the
Phasians (Phazians),
mentioned in The
Anabasis of the
ancient Gr****
historian Xenofon...
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sandgrouse (Pterocles),
Coraciiformes (bee-eaters, hornbills, Ceratogymna),
phasians,
Congo peafowl, blue quail,
harlequin quail,
stone partridge, Madagascar...
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Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica, Xenophon's
Anabasis (5.4.26-34), Herodotus.
Phasians eastern part of
Pontus Xenophon, Hippocrates.
Sanni near
Trebizond Strabo...
- to the Macrones)
Macrones (ancestors of present-day Mingrelians)
Marres Phasians Zydretae Moschi-Mossynoeci
Moschi (possible Mushki, Kartvelian?, origin...
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meaning "a gold river." The
collective use of the
ethnonym Φασιανοί (
Phasians) is
attested in
Xenophon and
Heraclides Lembus. The name
Phasis is the...
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Phasianoidea is
formed by the
union of the
elements of
scientific Latin Phasian- and -oidea. The
first is the
genitive root of the name of its type genus...
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because he wets
himself with fear (line 68). A po****r pun ****ociates
Phasian (phasianikos) with
informers or
sycophants (sycophantikos) – the pun however...
