Phasiani

PHASIA´NI (Φασιανοί), a tribe in the eastern part of Pontus, on the river Phasis, from which both they and the district called Φασιανὴ χώρα derived their names. (Xenoph. Anab. 4.6.5, 7.8.25; Diod. 14.29; Eustath. ad Dionys. Per. 689.)