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The modern boundaries of Thrace in Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey The physical–geographical boundaries of Thrace: the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Rhodope Mountains (highlighted) and the Bosporus The Roman province of Thrace c. 200 AD The Byzantine thema of Thrace Map of Ancient Thrace made by Abraham Ortelius in 1585, stating both the names Thrace and Europe Thrace and the Thracian ...
Thracia or Thrace (Ancient Greek: Θρᾴκη, romanized: Thrakē) is the ancient name given to the southeastern Balkan region, the land inhabited by the Thracians. Thrace was ruled by the Odrysian kingdom during the Classical and Hellenistic eras, and briefly by the Greek Diadochi ruler Lysimachus , but became a client state of the late Roman ...
Western Thrace or West Thrace (Greek: [Δυτική] Θράκη, [Dytikí] Thráki) also known as Greek Thrace or Aegean Thrace, is a geographic and historical region of Greece, between the Nestos and Evros rivers in the northeast of the country; East Thrace, which lies east of the river Evros, forms the European part of Turkey, and the area to the north, in Bulgaria, is known as Northern Thrace.
East Thrace (blue) within Thrace (yellow) East Thrace (blue) within the Marmara Region of Turkey East Thrace landscape in Edirne Province, Turkey. East Thrace or eastern Thrace (Turkish: Doğu Trakya or simply Trakya; Greek: Ανατολική Θράκη, romanized: Anatolikí Thráki; Bulgarian: Източна Тракия, romanized: Iztochna Trakiya), also known as Turkish Thrace or ...
Bulgaria and the lands under Bulgarian rule during World War II. The Bulgarian rule in Macedonia, Morava Valley and Western Thrace (Bulgarian: Българско управление в Македония, Поморавието и Западна Тракия) refers to the administration of the newly annexed areas of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during the country's participation in World War II ...
In the 6th century BC the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquered Thrace, starting in 513 BC, when the Achaemenid king Darius I amassed an army and marched from Achaemenid-ruled Anatolia into Thrace, and from there he crossed the Arteskos river and then proceeded through the valley-route of the Hebros river. This was an act of conquest by Darius I ...
The modern boundaries of Thrace in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey This is a list of cities and towns in Thrace , a geographical region split between Bulgaria , Greece and Turkey . The largest cities of Thrace are: Istanbul (European side), Plovdiv , Burgas , Edirne , and Stara Zagora .
Thrace is a historical region of Europe currently divided among Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of ...