People
Sanyigae
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Sanyigae marks a people rather than a town: the Sanigae, a tribe of the Heniochi living on the Caucasian coast of the Black Sea. The Roman writer Pliny knew them, as did a Greek guide to the Black Sea coasts and the historian Procopius. The odd y is probably a copyist's slip: the fourth letter was most likely an n, turned into a y by the copyist of around 1200 or someone before him.