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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 ...
According to Ethnica, a geographical dictionary by Stephanus of Byzantium, Thrace—the land of the Thracians—was known as Perki (Περκη) and Aria (Αρια) before being named Thrace by the Greeks, [29] [30] presumably due to the affiliation of the Thracians with the god Ares [31] and Perki is the reflexive name of the god Ares as ...
However, Indo-European scholars have pointed out that "even the notion that what the ancients called "Thracian" was a single entity is unproven." [15] The table below lists potential cognates from Indo-European languages, but most of them have not found general acceptance within Indo-European scholarship.
Thrace (satrapy), an Achaemenid Persian province; Odrysian kingdom, which ruled much of Thrace in Antiquity, formed by the Odrysians; Thracia, a Roman imperial province; Diocese of Thrace, a late Roman/early Byzantine province; Thrace (theme), a middle and late Byzantine province
Western Thrace or West Thrace (Greek: [Δυτική] Θράκη, [Dytikí] Thráki) also known as Greek Thrace or Aegean Thrace, is a geographical 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 ...
Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (/ ˌ m æ s ə ˈ d oʊ n i ə / MASS-ə-DOH-nee-ə; Greek: Ανατολική Μακεδονία και Θράκη, romanized: Anatolikí Makedonía ke Thráki, [anatoliˈci maceðoˈnia ce ˈθraci]) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.
This is a list of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia (Ancient Greek: Θρᾴκη, Δακία) including possibly or partly Thracian or Dacian tribes, and non-Thracian or non-Dacian tribes that inhabited the lands known as Thrace and Dacia. A great number of Ancient Greek tribes lived in these regions as well, albeit in the Greek colonies.