Tapurei

Tapurei (Greek: Ταπούρεοι) were a tribe in Scythia intra Imaum mentioned by Ptolemy.{{Cite web|title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood|author= William Smith, LLD |location= London |publisher = Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street|date = 1854 |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=D3C71883C3779F56571EF9A40D34FC0E?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DT%3Aentry+group%3D2%3Aentry%3Dtapurei-geo|access-date=2021-02-04|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}; TAPUREI

Ptolemy refers to two different tribe with similar names. The first tribe, called Tapuri, lived in the land of the Medes south of the Caspian Sea. The second tribe, called the Tapurei, lived in the land of the Scythians.{{Cite web|title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. William Smith, LLD. London. Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854. ,TAPU´RI|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=tapuri-geo|access-date=2021-02-04|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}} According to the Encyclopaedia Iranica, the origin of the Tapurei reached the mountains of the land of Hyrcania.[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/iran-v2-peoples-pre-islamic Tapuri. The mountains inland from the coast of Hyrcania are called the “Tapurian mountains” by Arrian, after the people there, settled in the mountains between the Derbices and the Hyrcanii (Str., 11.9.1, 11.11.8). They are spread toward the Caspian Gates and Rhaga in Media (Ptol., 6.2.6).These western Tapuri could have resulted from a tribal division north of the Sarnius/Atrak river—another, perhaps ancestral, group, the Tapurei, is located by Ptolemy (6.14.12) in Scythia. The remainder moved south and east into Margiana (“between the Hyrcani and the Arii,” Str., 11.8.8; Ptol., 6.10.2) along the Ochus/Arius (mod. Tejen/Hari-rud) river into Aria (cf. Polyb., 10.49). The Tapuri on the Caspian could, alternatively, represent a later westward migration along the main east-west highway from Margiana. These Tapuri furnished 1,000 cavalry for the battle of Gaugamela (Curt., 3.2.7), apparently aligned with the Hyrcanii (the “Topeiri,” Arr., An. 3.8.4). Alexander later subdued them (Arr., An. 3.23.1-2; Polyb., 5.44.5; Curt., 6.4.24-25). A separate satrap administered them at the time of Alexander’s arrival, and this official was assigned the Caspian Mardi as well (Arr., An. 3.22.7, 24.3; 4.18.2).], IRANICAONlINE IRAN v. PEOPLES OF IRAN (2) Pre-Islamic