Thracia
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Thracia or Thrace 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,
Greek vase painting showing a Thracian woman with tattooed arms, c. 470 BC
Caryatids of the Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari with skirts shaped like lotus flowers or acanthus leaves
Thracia , the personification of the province of Thrace - from the Hadrianeum
Roman province
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The Roman provinces were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was ruled
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…but became a client state of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire as the Sapaean kingdom. Roman emperor Claudius annexed the kingdom as a Roman province in 46 AD. From the perspective of classical Greece, Thracia included the territory north of Thessaly, with no definite boundaries, sometimes to the…
Roman Empire under Augustus (31 BC – AD 14), showing the empire as of 31 BC in yellow, additions to 19 BC in dark green, additions in 9 BC in light green, and additions to AD 6 in pale green. Client states in pink.
The World showing the League of Nations, 1929