Biephi was a Dacian tribe mentioned by Ptolemy in western part of Dacia.[1] The name is probably corrupted from Biesi. Vasile Pârvan located this tribe outside Transylvania and Oltenia, its location in the northeast of Banat being closest to reality.[2]

Biephi on Dacia's map from a medieval book made after Ptolemy's Geographia (ca. 140 AD).
Dacian tribes.

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  1. Dacia: Landscape, Colonization and Romanization by Ioana A Oltean, ISBN 0-415-41252-8, 2007, page 46
  2. "Enciclopedia Dacica".
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