The Timachi were a Thracian tribe in living by present-day

Timok The Timok ( Serbian and Bulgarian: Тимок; ro, Timoc), sometimes also known as Great Timok ( sr, Велики Тимок, Veliki Timok; ro, Timocul Mare), is a river in eastern Serbia, a right tributary of the Danube. For the last 15 k ...

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, then part of

Moesia Inferior Moesia (; Latin: ''Moesia''; el, Μοισία, Moisía) was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River, which included most of the territory of modern eastern Serbia, Kosovo, north-eastern Alban ...

(87 AD). It may have been an artificial creation by the Romans. In the 1st century before

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conquest of

Thrace Thrace (; el, Θράκη, Thráki; bg, Тракия, Trakiya; tr, Trakya) or Thrake is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe, now split among Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, which is bounded by the Balkan Mountains to t ...

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lists them as one of the Moesian tribes alongside

Dardanians Dardania, Dardanian or Dardanians may refer to ancient peoples or locations. People * Dardani, an ancient tribe in the Balkans * Dardanians (Trojan) (''Dardanoi''), a people closely related to the Trojans and believed to be related to the Dardani ...

Celegeri Celegeri were a CelticJ. J. Wilkes, The Illyrians, 1992, , p. 217. tribe, together with the Dindari a branch of the Scordisci that migrated to Illyria after the Gallic invasion of the Balkans in 279 BC. They inhabited Moesia Superior (mod ...

Triballi The Triballi ( grc, Τριβαλλοί, Triballoí, lat, Triballi) were an ancient people who lived in northern Bulgaria in the region of Roman Oescus up to southeastern Serbia, possibly near the territory of the Morava Valley in the late Iron A ...

and

Moesi In Roman literature of the early 1st century CE, the Moesi ( or ; grc, Μοισοί, ''Moisoí'' or Μυσοί, ''Mysoí''; lat, Moesi or ''Moesae'') appear as a Paleo-Balkan people who lived in the region around the River Timok to the south o ...

.Pannonia and Upper Moesia
by András MócsyAlan K. Bowman, Edward Champlin, Andrew Lintott, The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69, Cambridge University Press, 1996
/ref> The territorial unit of the Timachi was small, limited to a single valley system around the

Danube The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , pa ...

where each tributary was guarded by an auxiliary garrison supervised by ''praefecti''.Landscapes of change
by Neil Christie, page 226 They have received or given their name to the Timok region (''TIMACUS''). The

and Timachi were replaced with the Romanized tribes of

Tricornenses The Tricornenses of Tricornum (modern Ritopek Ritopek (Serbian Cyrillic: Ритопек, ) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Grocka, 20 km east of Belgrade and 19 km west of the municipa ...

and Picenses respectively. The Picenses of Pincum ('' Gradište'') "replaced" the Timachi.

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