Herodotus

Herodotus:


"
Now the Persian nation is made up of many tribes. Those which Cyrus
assembled and persuaded to revolt from the Medes were the principal
ones on which all the others are dependent. These are the Pasargadae,
the Maraphians, and the Maspians, of whom the Pasargadae are the
noblest. The Achaemenidae, from which spring all the Perseid kings,
is one of their clans. The rest of the Persian tribes are the
following: the Panthialaeans, the Derusiaeans, the Germanians, who
are engaged in husbandry; the Daans, the Mardians, the Dropicans, and
the Sagartians, who are nomads.
"

Germanians? Daans?? What happened to them? (Arrian mentions them too).

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