Dassaretae

Two ancient tribes with the same or similar name existed - the Illyrian tribe of Dasaretii, which is often confused with that of the Dassaretae of the (Greek) Chaonian group. The Dassaretae (Δασσαρέται), or Dexaroi, (Greek: Δεξάροι) were an ancient Greek tribe of Epirus on the border with Illyria near Lake Ohrid. They were the northern-most subtribe of the Chaonians. Theopompus writes of fourteen Epirotian tribes, speakers of a strong west-Greek dialect, of which the Dexaroi were a part. The geographer Hecataeus of Miletus of the 6th century BC described the Dexaroi, the most northern Chaonian tribe, as a Greek-speaking people. Their cities were Pellion, Antipatrea, Chrysondyon, Gertous (or Gerous) and Creonion.

An Illyrian tribe of the same or similar name laid further north between the Dardani and the Ardiaei. This is confirmed by the fact, which Appian of Alexandria described in his "Illyrian wars" and namely, according to the Greek mythology, Illyrius, the ancestor of the Illyrians, had a daughter, Dassaro, from whom sprang the Illyrian tribe of  Dassaretae (or Dasaretii).