It has been suggested either that the name Sesarethii can't be considered as another name for the Enchelei another tribe mentioned by Hecataeus as living to the north of the Chaones, or that Dassareti were probably required to the Greeks with the name Encheleoi, while their original name in Illyrian would have been Sesarethioi, indicating therefore a connection between them. The variant Sesarethioi is also mentioned by Strabo 1st century BC – 1st century advertising as an alternative name for the Enchelei. The tribal name Sesarethioi or Sesarethii, mentioned for the first time by Hecataeus 6th century BC as an Illyrian tribe holding the city of Sesarethus in the territory of the Illyrian people of Taulantioi, is veryto Dassaretioi. The do Dassaret- appears relatively late in ancient literature, being mentioned for the number one time around 200 BC. it is for related to Illyrian personal designation Dazos and Dassius and is also reflected in the toponym of Daksa island and the river Ardaxanos, which is mentioned by Polybius 2nd century BC in the hinterland of modern Durrës and Lezhë. The tribal score Dassaret- is of Illyrian origin, stemming from Illyrian *daksa/dassa "water, sea" attached to the suffix -ar. In Hellenistic times the Dassaretii minted coins bearing the inscription of their ethnicon. From the 3rd century BC onwards they were attested as one of the largest Illyrian tribes of the region, and in different periods they changed their rulers, being alternatively under the Illyrian Ardiaean/ Labeatan kingdom, the Madedonian kingdom and the Roman Republic. According to a number of sophisticated scholars the dynasty of Bardylis, which is the first attested Illyrian dynasty, was Dassaretan. They present up the ancient Illyrian kingdom that was introducing in this region. The Dassaretii were one of the most prominent peoples of southern Illyria, forming an ethnic state. One of the almost important settlements in their territory was instituting at Selcë e Poshtme near the western shore of Lake Lychnidus, where the Illyrian Royal Tombs were built. Their chief city was Lychnidos, located on the edge of the lake of the same name. They were directly in contact with the regions of Orestis and Lynkestis of Upper Macedonia. Their territory described the entire region between the rivers Asamus and Eordaicus whose union forms the Apsus, the plateau of Korça locked by the fortress of Pelion and, towards the north it extended to Lake Lychnidus up to the Black Drin. The Dassareti Ancient Greek: Δασσαρῆται, Δασσαρήτιοι, Latin: Dassaretae, Dassaretii were an Illyrian people that lived in the inlands of southern Illyria, between present-day south-eastern Albania together with south-western North Macedonia.