Meotes or meotas (Greek Μαιῶται) is a generic name given by classical Greek authors to the peoples of the Azov Sea region, which in classical times was called Palus Maeotis. The first to use this word was Helianthus of Lesbos. Strabo relates about the meotes who were fishermen and miners, as well as fierce warriors. The Greek geographer reports that they were a group of different groups or tribes: sindos, dandarios, toretas, agros, arrecos, tarpites (or tarpetas), obidiacenos, sitacenos, doscos. Aspurgians living in a small territory between Fanagoria and Gorgipia, some of them tributaries of the Greek Tanais or the Bosporus kingdoms, although their submission was always temporary.
The Meotes have been related to the current ones.
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