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The Thracians in classical times were broken up into a large number of groups and tribes, though a number of powerful Thracian states were organized, the most important being the Odrysian kingdom of Thrace, and also the short lived Dacian kingdom of Burebista. The peltast is a type of soldier of this period that originated in Thrace. [87]
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 ...
Shqip; Slovenščina; ... Thracology (2 C, 1 P) Thracian tribes (3 C, 54 P) Pages in category "Thracians" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Aside from compositions by ancient authors, inscriptions on stone are the main other source on ancient Thracian religion. [1] These inscriptions are natively Thracian in origin, [3] and are useful in providing information on the locations of sanctuaries, on the preferred depictions of the deities, as well as on Thracian devotees. [4]
Roman empire under Hadrian (ruled 117–38), showing the imperial province of Thracia in southeastern Europe The Roman diocese of Thraciae. Thracia or Thrace (Ancient Greek: Θρᾴκη, romanized: Thrakē) is the ancient name given to the southeastern Balkan region, the land inhabited by the Thracians.
The Baltic classification of Dacian and Thracian was proposed by the Lithuanian polymath Jonas Basanavičius, referred to as "Patriarch of Lithuania", who insisted this is the most important work of his life and listed 600 identical words of Balts and Thracians [8] [9] [10] and was the first to investigate similarities in vocal traditions between Lithuanians and Bulgarians. [11]
It encompasses Sredna Gora, the Upper Thracian Plain, and 90% of the Rhodopes. The climate ranges from subtropical to transitional continental and mountainous. The highest temperature recorded in Bulgaria occurred here: it was 45.2 °C (113.4 °F; 318.3 K) at Sadovo in 1916. The main rivers of the region are the Maritsa and its tributaries.
Mixed tribes of Thracians and Phrygians, however Phrygians seem to have been a people ethnolinguistically closer to the Hellenic peoples, Greeks and ancient Macedonians, and not to the Thracians. Mygdones; Pieres [42] (They also may have been a Brygian tribe, related to the Phrygians and the Mygdones, and not a Thracian tribe)