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Thracians followed a polytheistic religion with monotheistic elements. One of their customs was tattooing, common among both men and women. [16] The Thracians culturally interacted with the peoples surrounding them – Greeks, Persians, Scythians and Celts [17] [18] Thracians spoke the now extinct Thracian language and shared a common culture. [1]
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 ...
The Thracian religion comprised the mythology, ritual practices and beliefs of the Thracians, a collection of closely related ancient Indo-European peoples who inhabited eastern and southeastern Europe and northwestern Anatolia throughout antiquity and who included the Thracians proper, the Getae, the Dacians, and the Bithynians.
The name Thracians itself seems to be a Greek exonym and we have no way of knowing what the Thracians called themselves. [17] Also certain tribes mentioned by Homer are not indeed historical. Agrianes [18] (it is also claimed that this tribe was Paeonian) [19] Apsynthii [20] Astae / Asti, [21] [22] they appear in the 2nd century BC to 1st ...
The name Thracians itself seems to be a Greek exonym and we have no way of knowing what the Thracians called themselves. [2] Also certain tribes mentioned by Homer are not indeed historical. Agrianes [3] Apsynthii [4] Astae, [5] [6] they appear in the 2nd century BC to 1st century BC; Beni [7] Bessi [8] Bisaltae [9] Bistones [10]
The Language of the Thracians, an English translation of Ivan Duridanov's 1975 essay Ezikyt na trakite; Thracian glossary; Palaeolexicon – Word study tool of ancient languages (including Thracian dictionary)
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