Asti (Thracian tribe)

Asti (Αστοί) is the name of a Thracian tribe which is mentioned by Livy. It is believed that they lived around the old Thracian capital of Bizye.



List of rulers
A possible continuation of the earlier Odrysian monarchy under a line of kings reigning from Bizye (now Vize) in eastern Thrace.
 * Cotys V, son of ? Beithys (?-by 87 BC)
 * Sadalas I, son of Cotys V (by 87–after 79 BC)
 * Amadocus, Odrysian royal sent to the aid of Sulla at Chaeronea in 86 BC
 * Cotys VI, son of Sadalas I (by 57–48 BC)
 * Sadalas II, son of Cotys VI (48–42 BC)
 * Sadalas III, kinsman of Sadalas II (42-31 BC)
 * Cotys VII, son of Sadalas II by Polemocratia (31–18 BC)
 * Rhescuporis II, son of Cotys VII by daughter of the Sapaean king Cotys II, killed by the Bessi (18–11 BC)
 * 11 BC Astaean Thrace conferred on Rhescuporis II's maternal uncle, the Sapaean king Rhoemetalces I, by the Roman emperor Augustus, thereby uniting Thrace