Paeonians

Paeonianss or Paeons(Greek Παίονες) were either a  mixed Thracian-Illyrian,seperate or an Ancient Macedonian subgroup they lived on the banks of the upper reaches of the Axios(Vardar)  and Strymon(Struma)  The Athenian historian Thucydides  suggests that the Strymon was the boundary between the Paeonians and the Thracians Herodotus in his book Histories mentions several tribes:


 * the Paeoplae
 * Siriopaeones
 * Doberes
 * Agrianes

Origins
Homer, whose knowledge of the southern Balkan Peninsula is patchy, presents the Paeonians as allies of the Trojans, which probably only means that he recognized them as non-Greek; otherwise, he would have introduced them in Agamemnon’s Panhellenic army. He places the Paeones near the Axius, According to Herodotus he says Paeonians were the Descendants of the Trojans while strabo says the Paeonians were Phyrgians