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Costoboci

Κοιστοβῶκοι

Eth. Costoboci (Eth. Κοιστοβῶκοι, Ptol. 3.5.21; Κοστουβῶκοι, D. C. 71.12; Costobocci, Plin. Nat. 6.7; Costobocae, Amm. Marc. 22.8.42; Costoboci, Capitolin. M. Antonin. 100.22), a people of Dacia, probably belonging to the Wendish stock (Schafarik, Slavische Alterthum, vol. i. p. 122). Their position has been sought in the district of Tschernigow.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.