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The Alarodians (Ἀλαρόδιοι Alarodioi) are an ancient people mentioned by Herodotus who – together with the Matienians and Saspeires – inhabited the 18th satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire. Little is known about the Alarodians except for their participation in the army of Xerxes the Great during the Second Persian invasion of Greece. According to Herodotus, they were armed like the Saspeires and Colchians.