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In Turkish, Thrace is commonly referred to as Rumeli, meaning "Land of the Romans", which was the name traditionally given by Turkic societies to the Byzantine Empire and Orthodox Christians. In Greek mythology, Thrace is named after the heroine and sorceress Thrace, who was the daughter of Oceanus and Parthenope, and sister of Europa.
East Thrace was the setting for several important events in history and legend, including: In 1000 BCE, Thracian tribes found the settlements of Lygos and Semistra; Plinius mentions the founding of Semistra in his histories and traces of Lygos remain near Seraglio Point. The Greek myth of Hero and Leander takes place in the ancient city of Sestus.
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 ...
Ancient Greek artwork often depicts Thracians as redheads. [58] Rhesus of Thrace, a mythological Thracian king, was so named because of his red hair and is depicted on Greek pottery as having red hair and a red beard. [58] Ancient Greek writers also described the Thracians as red-haired.
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 .
Hesychius, compare the Toponyms Πολτυμβρία, Σηλυ(μ)μβρία, and Βρέα in Thrace. Compared to Greek ῥίον (ríon; "peak, foothills") and Tocharian A ri , B riye ("town") as if < *urih₁- .
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 region is home to Greece's main Muslim minority, made up mainly of Pomaks and Western Thrace Turks, whose presence dates to the Ottoman period. Unlike the Muslims of Macedonia, Epirus, and elsewhere in northern Greece, they were exempted from the Greek-Turkish population exchange following the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.