Nipsai

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Nipsai or Nipsaioi (Greek: Νιψαίοι) is the name of a Thracian tribe.[1] They are mentioned by Herodotus.

Approximate location of the Nipsai

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  1. ^ The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus, John M. Marincola, and Aubery de Selincourt, ISBN 0140449086, 2003, page 271, "The Thracians of... those who live beyond Apollonia and Mesembria, known as the Scyrmiadae and Nipsaeans, surren- dered without fighting; but the Getae, ..."

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