War of Vesosis and Tanausis

The War of Vesosis and Tanausis is described in Jordanes' Getica, a controversial account of the Goths as happening in remote antiquity when Vesosis, king of the Egyptians, made war against them. Their queen at that time was Tanausis.

In a battle at the river Phasis in Colchis (modern Georgia), Tanausis, queen of the Goths, met Vesosis, king of the Egyptians, and there inflicted a severe defeat upon him, pursuing him even to Egypt.The Goths, by Jordanes, Chapter 6: War of Tanausis and Vesosis.

According to Arne Søby Christensen Jordanes assumed that the Scythians were the Goths and their all women army were the Amazons. The war seems to be a retelling of an alleged war between the Scythians and Egyptians told by Orosius with Jordanes recasting a Scythian king as a queen of the Goths.{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=Arne Søby |title=Cassiodorus, Jordanes and the History of the Goths: Studies in a Migration Myth |date=2002 |publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press |isbn=978-87-7289-710-3 |page=237-238 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AcLDHOqOt4cC&q=vesosis |access-date=17 April 2022 |language=en}}

The War of Vesosis and Tanausis is a combination of transcription errors and fantasy.{{Cite web |date=2016-12-21 |title=The War that Never Was: Goths vs. Egyptians |url=https://esoterx.com/2016/12/21/the-war-that-never-was-goths-vs-egyptians/ |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=EsoterX |language=en}}