abstract:The Bessi (; ) were an independent Thracian tribe who lived in a territory ranging from Moesia to Mount Rhodope in southern Thrace, but are often mentioned as dwelling about Haemus, the mountain range that separates Moesia from Thrace and from Mount Rhodope to the northern part of Hebrus.Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898),"(Bessoi).