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Thrace is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe roughly corresponding to the province of Thrace in the Roman Empire. Bounded by the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Aegean Sea to
The region of Thrace in the modern boundaries of Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey
The physical–geographical boundaries of Thrace: the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Rhodope Mountains (highlighted) to the southwest, the Aegean Sea to the south, the Bosporus to the southeast and the Black Sea to the east
Thrace in the Odrysian Kingdom showing several Thracian tribes. Sapeia was Northern Thrace and Asteia was Southern Thrace
Skudrian (Thracian) soldier of the Achaemenid army, circa 480 BC. Xerxes I tomb relief.
Thracians
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The Thracians were an Indo-European–speaking people who inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe in ancient history. Thracians resided mainly in Southeast Europe in modern-day Bulgaria, Romania, Nort
Thrace
…and the European part of Turkey, corresponding to Northern, Western and East Thrace respectively. In classical antiquity, lands inhabited by ancient Thracians extended also in the north to modern-day Northern Bulgaria and Romania and to the west into Northern Greece, North Macedonia and Serbia. The word Thrace…
Bronze head of Seuthes III from his tomb
Thracian armor from the Odrysian kingdom, 4th century BC
Ares the god of war and courage. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera.
Illustration of 5th–4th century BC Thracian peltast