The Peresadyes (Ancient Greek: Περεσάδυες) were an ancient tribe that lived in southeast Illyria.
Some historians have suggested that they were a part of either the Enchelei, the Taulantii, or the Dardani. According to others their name is very close to that of the royal name Berisades in Thrace (in Ancient Greek: Bηρισάδης), which would suggest a possible Thracian origin.
In ancient literature they are recorded only by Strabo, who reported what most likely Hecataeus wrote about them, saying that they joined the dynasty of the Enchelei, also called Sessarethii.
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- The Cambridge ancient history, Tome 6 by John Boardman, ISBN 0521850738, 1994, page 423
- A History of Macedonia: 550-336 B.C by Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, Guy Thompson Griffith, 1978, ISBN 0198148143, page 93, "The Peresadyes, then, were the rulers of Trebenishte, and Hecataeus wrote of them when they were at the height of their power. It is likely, as we have, seen, that they came from the north; they may have been Dardanii, forerunners of the fourth-century dynasty of Bardylis, and they had contact with the Thracians,..."
- Hammond, Nicholas (1967). Epirus: the geography, the ancient remains, the history and topography of Epirus and adjacent areas. Clarendon P. p. 466.
Περεσάδύες τε συνεστήσαντο τήν δυναστείαν καί Έγχελέους καί Σεσαρηθίους καλούσι. The Peresadyes are evidently Illyrians; the name is not known elsewhere but the royal name Berisades in Thrace is very close to it. These Peresadyes joined the dynasty... συνεστήσαντο τήν δυναστείαν; cf. LSJ συνίστημι, B. III, which..."
- Hammond 1967, p. 466.
- Hammond 1967, p. 467.
