Bistones (Greek: "Βίστονες") is the name of a Thracian people who dwelt between Mount Rhodopé and the Aegean Sea, beside Lake Bistonis, near Abdera[1] extending westward as far as the river Nestus.[2] It was through the land of the Bistones that Xerxes marched on his invasion of Greece (480 BC).[1] The Bistones continued to exist at the time when the Romans were masters of Thrace.[2] Roman poets sometimes use the names of the Bistones for that of the Thracians in general.[2] Pliny mentions one town as belonging to the Bistones: Tirida; the other towns on their coast, Dicaea, Ismaron, Parthenion, Phalesina and Maronea, were Greek colonies.[2]
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