The Euxine Coast of Asia

Tanais was a city on the Tanais river that flows into the Maiotic lake. It was once a Hellenic colony. Strabo says it King Polemon I raided it for its disobedience. It was an emporium where Asiatic and European nomads brought slaves and hides in exchange for designer clothes and fine wine and other civilised wares. Nomads and Bosporians. Polemon pushed his luck a bit too much and subsequently suffered death in the hands of those wreaking revenge for his attacks where he often feigned friendship before attacking.
   In Phanagoreia near the Bosphorus, there lies a sanctuary to Aphrodite. There's a myth in which the Gigantes attacked her there so she summoned Hercules and hid him in a cave and then she admitted the Gigantes one by one and they were thus slaughtered by Hercules treacherously and deceitfully. This place was near Pantikapaion the main emporium on the Maiotis. There is is said to be large reserves of salted fish near Great Rhombites where the Maiotian farmers worked and there are lookouts along the coast to observe the fish, said to me Klazomenian. Near Dioskourias the lice eaters were called the Phtheirophagians who were given that name due to their squalor and filth.
   The Heniochians named after heniochoi which is the hellenic word for charioteer were piratical and used small lightweight wooden boats called kamarai  to raid merchant ships on the Pontic carrying twenty to thirty robbers in each boat. Because their coastline was mountainous bordering on the Caucasus they would carry the kamarai on their shoulders and store them in the forest. At night they would sometimes practice kidnapping always setting their abductee free as they always needed money. The kamarai were often sunk in counter attacks. They were said to be originally from Laconia on the Peloponnesos.