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Afterwards the kingdom disintegrated: southern and central Thrace were divided among three Odrysian kings, while the northeast came under the dominion of the kingdom of the Getae. The three Odrysian kingdoms were eventually conquered by the rising kingdom of Macedon under Philip II in 340 BC.
Odrysian kingdom & Environs,431 BC. Sitalces (Sitalkes) (/ s ɪ ˈ t æ l ˌ s iː z /; Ancient Greek: Σιτάλκης; reigned 431–424 BC) was one of the kings of the Thracian Odrysian state. [1] The Suda called him Sitalcus (Σίταλκος). [2] He was the son of Teres I, and on the sudden death of his father in 431 BC succeeded to the ...
Seuthes I (/ ˈ s uː ˌ θ iː z /; Ancient Greek: Σεύθης, Seuthēs) was king of the Odrysians in Thrace from 424 BC until at least 411 BC.. Seuthes was the son of Sparatocos (Sparadocus), and the grandson of Teres I.
The Odrysian Kingdom under Sitalces Bronze head of An Odrysian king, most likely Seuthes III The list below includes the known Odrysian kings of Thrace, but much of it is conjectural, based on incomplete sources, and the varying interpretation of ongoing numismatic and archaeological discoveries.
Articles relating to the Odrysian kingdom (c. 480 BC–46 AD), a state union of over 40 Thracian tribes [1]) and 22 kingdoms [2] that existed with interruptions between the 5th century BC and the 1st century AD.
Teres I (Ancient Greek: Τήρης, Ancient Greek: [tɛ́ːrɛːs]; reigned 460–445 BC) [1] was the first king of the Odrysian kingdom of Thrace. Thrace had nominally been part of the Persian empire since 516 BC [2] during the rule of Darius the Great, and was re-subjugated by Mardonius in 492 BC. [3]
Hebryzelmis evidently succeeded Amadocus I as the chief king of Odrysian Thrace shortly after 390/389 BC, [4] and was apparently opposed by Amadocus' former protege and rival Seuthes II. Hebryzelmis appears to have gained the upper hand, and Seuthes II only retained (or regained) his own lands with the help of the Athenian general Iphicrates ...
The conquest of the southern part of Thrace by Philip II of Macedon in the 4th century BC made the Odrysian kingdom extinct for several years. After the kingdom was reestablished, it was a vassal state of Macedon for several decades under generals such as Lysimachus of the Diadochi. [citation needed] Mosaic depicting the Battle of Issus, 333 BC