other uses Image Thrace and present day state borderlines.png thumb The modern boundaries of Thrace in Bulgaria ... of Thrace the Balkan Mountains, the Rhodope Mountains and the Bosphorus. The Rhodope mountain ... thumb The Roman province of Thrace Image Byzantine Macedonia 1045CE.svg thumb The Byzantine thema of Thrace. Image Thraciae veteris typvs.jpg thumb Map of Ancient Thrace made by Abraham Ortelius , in 1585 . Thrace pron en re s , adjective Thracian is pron en re n or IPA re i n ... in southeast Europe . As a geographical concept, Thrace designates a region bounded by the Balkan ... of Marmara on the east. The areas it comprises are southeastern Bulgaria Northern Thrace , northeastern Greece Western Thrace , and the European part of Turkey Eastern Thrace . The biggest part of Thrace is part of present day Bulgaria. In Bulgaria and Turkey, it is also called Rumelia . The name ... Europe. Geography Borders The historical boundaries of Thrace have varied. Noteworthy is the fact that, at an early date, the ancient Greeks employed the term Thrace to refer to all of the territory ... in its application Thrace designated the lands bordered by the Danube on the north, by the Euxine ...&pg PA344 ref This usage lasted until the Roman conquest. Henceforth, classical Thrace referred .... In its early period, the Thracia Roman province Roman province of Thrace was of this extent, but after ... small provinces which constituted the Diocese of Thrace . The medieval Byzantine Empire Byzantine Theme country subdivision theme of Theme of ThraceThrace contained only what today is Eastern Thrace . Cities of Thrace main List of cities of Thrace The largest cities of Thrace are Istanbul European ... Turks of Western Thrace Most of the Bulgarian and Greek population are Christians, while most of the Turkish inhabitants of Thrace are Muslims. Thrace in ancient Greek mythology Ancient Greek mythology ... was said to reside in Thrace. The Thracians appear in Homer s Iliad as Troy Trojan allies, led by Acamas ... more details
Image Thrace and present day state borderlines.png thumb The modern boundaries of Thrace in Bulgaria , Greece and Turkey . Thrace is a geographic region in the eastern Balkans , today divided between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Historical entities Thrace satrapy , an Achaemenid Persian province Kingdom of Thrace , which ruled much of Thrace in Antiquity, formed by the Odrysians Thracia Roman province , a Roman imperial province Diocese of Thrace , a late Roman early Byzantine province Thrace theme , a middle and late Byzantine province Thrace Prefecture , Greece Geographical political divisions Northern Thrace , the Bulgarian part of Thrace Western Thrace , the Greek part of Thrace, part of the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery Eastern Thrace , the Turkish part of Thrace, also known as European Turkey Other uses Thrace mythology , the region s eponymous heroine in Greek mythology Kara Thrace , a character in the TV series Battlestar Galactica See also Thracian disambiguation geodis fr Thrace homonymie ... more details
Drys lang grc was an ancient Greek ref An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,Index ref city located in Thrace , located in the region between the river Nestos to the river Hebros. See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Greek Greek colonies in Thrace References Reflist Category Greek colonies in Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Thrace Category Ancient Greek cities Ancient Greece stub ... more details
Chersonesos lang grc was an ancient Greek ref An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,Index ref city located in Thrace , located in the region of the Thracian Chersonesos . See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Greek Greek colonies in Thrace References Reflist Category Greek colonies in Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Thrace Category Ancient Greek cities Ancient Greece stub ... more details
Derris lang grc was an ancient Greek ref An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,Index ref city located in Thrace, located in the region of the Thracian Chersonesos . See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Greek Greek colonies in Thrace References Reflist Category Greek colonies in Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Thrace Category Ancient Greek cities Ancient Greece stub ... more details
Kardia lang grc was an ancient Greek ref An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,Index ref city located in Thrace , located in the region of the Thracian Chersonesos . See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Greek Greek colonies in Thrace References Reflist Category Greek colonies in Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Thrace Category Ancient Greek cities Ancient Greece stub ... more details
Heraion lang grc was an ancient Greek ref An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 918 ref city in Thrace , located in the region of the Propontis . See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Greek Greek colonies in Thrace References Reflist Category Greek colonies in Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Thrace Category Ancient Greek cities Ancient Greece stub ... more details
about the ancient Greek city in Thrace Paean disambiguation Paion lang grc was an ancient Greek city located in Thrace, on the north coast of the Thracian Chersonesos Chersonesos . ref An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2004. p. 909 ref See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Greek Greek colonies in Thrace References Reflist Category Greek colonies in Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Thrace Category Ancient Greek cities Ancient Greece stub ... more details
Athyras lang grc was an ancient Greek ref Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea 2, D m trios V. Grammenos, ISBN 1407301101,2007,page 1182 ref ref The cities in Thrace and Dacia in late antiquity studies and materials by Velizar Iv Velkov,1977,page 124 ref city in Thrace , located in the region of the Propontis .It was also the name of a river. See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Greek Greek colonies in Thrace References Reflist Category Greek colonies in Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Thrace Category Ancient Greek cities Ancient Greece stub ... more details
Infobox Pref GR name Thrace name local ... flag reg image map periph East Macedonia and Thrace capital year start year end 1930 Thrace Prefecture was disestablished in 1930, when it was split into the Rhodope Prefecture and Evros Prefecture . In 1944 Xanthi Prefecture was created from parts of Rhodope Prefecture . The remaining part of Rhodope was later joined with Evros to form the Rhodope Evros Super prefecture . The area is known today as Greek Thrace, Western Thrace or within Greece simply as Thrace. See also Thrace Prefectures and provinces of Greece coord missing Greece Category Prefectures of Greece ... more details
orphan date August 2009 Thrace in Greek mythology was the eponymous heroine and sorceress of Thrace . She was the daughter of Oceanus and Parthenope , and sister of Europa mythology Europa . References Pierre Grimal The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. DEFAULTSORT Thrace Mythology Category Greek mythological witches Category Mythological Thracian women ... more details
Sale lang grc was an ancient Greek ref An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,Index ref city located in Thrace , located in the region between the river Nestos to the river Hebros. See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Greek Greek colonies in Thrace References Reflist Category Greek colonies in Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Thrace Category Ancient Greek cities Ancient Greece stub ca Sale Tr cia ... more details
University of Thrace or Thrace University may refer to three universities, all based in the historical region of Thrace in Southeastern Europe Democritus University of Thrace , Dimokriteio Panepistimio Thrakis , a university in Xanthi , Komotini , Alexandroupoli and Orestiada , Greece Trakia University , Trakiyski universitet , a university in Stara Zagora , Bulgaria Trakya University Trakya niversitesi , a university in Edirne , Turkey disambig bg de Thrakien Universit t ru ... more details
Larissa lang grc was an ancient Greek ref An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 499 ref ref Back Matter ... sites identified solely by coins Location Site THESSALY Atrax, Kieron, Larissa THRACE Ainos, Bizye, Byzantium, Deultum, Maroneia, Mesembra, Pantalia ? ... ref city located in Thrace , located in the region between the river Nestos to the river Hebros.Larissa was located in the borderland between Elis and Achaian Dyme .It remains unlocated and unidentified. See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Greek Greek colonies in Thrace References Reflist Category Greek colonies in Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Thrace Category Ancient Greek cities Ancient Greece stub ... more details
Dikaia lang grc was an ancient Greek ref The Histories by Herodotus, Carolyn Dewald, and Robin Waterfield,2008,page 442 ... bed of the Lisus, Xerxes passed the Greek towns of Maronea, Dicaea, and Abdera. His route also took him past a ... ref ref An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,Index ref city located in Thrace , located in the region between the river Nestos to the river Hebros. See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Greek Greek colonies in Thrace References Reflist Category Greek colonies in Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Thrace Category Ancient Greek cities Ancient Greece stub ... more details
Infobox Former Subdivision native name aut Dioecesis Thraciae br conventional long name Diocese of Thrace common name Diocese of Thrace continent Europe subdivision Roman diocese Diocese nation the Roman Empire era Late Antiquity capital title leader Vicarius image map Dioecesis Thraciae 400 AD.png image map caption The Diocese of Thrace ca. 400 AD. life span 314 640s year start 314 event start year end 640s event end much of Thrace overrun by Slavs The Diocese of Thrace lang la Dioecesis Thraciae , lang el was a Roman diocese diocese of the later Roman Empire , incorporating the provinces of the eastern Balkans Balkan Peninsula comprising territories in modern south eastern Romania , central and eastern Bulgaria , and Western Thrace Greek and East Thrace Turkish Thrace . The diocese was established after the reforms of Diocletian , and was subordinate to the Praetorian prefecture of the East . It lasted until the Balkan peninsula was largely overrun by the Eurasian Avars Avars and Slavs in the 640s. Soon after, the old provincial system was replaced by the Theme system Thematic system . The diocese included the provinces of Europa Roman province Europa , Thracia Roman province Thracia , Haemimontus , Rhodope Roman province Rhodope , Moesia Moesia II and Scythia Minor Scythia . List of known Vicarii Thraciarum Aelius Claudius Dulcitius ? 361 Capitolinus 361 363 Andronicus ca. 366 Philoxenus ca. 392 Solomon ? 582 Ancient Rome stub Byzantine stub Late Roman Provinces state collapsed Category Dioceses of the Roman Empire Thrace Category Roman Thrace Category Roman Greece Category Dioceses of the Byzantine Empire Category Late Antiquity Category Medieval Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Ancient history of Romania Category History of Bulgaria Category Dobruja an Tracia diocesi romana it Tracia diocesi ... more details
Mount Thrace coor dm 77 30 S 161 7 E is a summit topography peak rising to 1800 m at the southeast side of Mount Boreas , Olympus Range , in the McMurdo Dry Valleys . The peak is connected by a ridge to the Mount Boreas massif. In association with the names of figures in Greek mythology grouped in the range, named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names US ACAN 2004 after Thrace, legendary home of Boreas Mount Boreas, q.v. . usgs gazetteer antarctica geo stub Category Mountains of Antarctica Thrace, Mount ... more details
Neapolis lang grc was an ancient Greek ref An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,Index ref city located in Thrace , located in the region between the river Strymon and the river Nestos.It was founded by colonists from Thasos .Neapolis was a member of the Delian league and entered the Athenian tribute list at 454 BC first by toponym and by 443 BC by city ethnic name.Recorded a total of fourteen times form 454 BC to 429 BC it paid the sum of 1,000 drachmas.It had independence from Thasos as dues of its customs were collected in its own harbour.At a point property of Neapolitans in Thasos was confiscated by the oligarchy Oligarch s related to a situation from before 463 BC when the Thasian peraia was detached from Thasos. Despite Thasos defection from the Delian league in 411 BC Neapolis remained loyal causing Neapolitan Oligarchs to flee to Thasos and the confiscation of properties. Neapolis was besieged by the Thasians unsuccessfully causing the Athenians to praise them for their loyalty and for participating the siege of Thasos itself at 410 or 409 BC. See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Greek Greek colonies in Thrace References Reflist Category Greek colonies in Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Thrace Category Ancient Greek cities Ancient Greece stub ... more details
Thrace native name native name lang el settlement type Regions of Greece Region of Greece image map Thracians Greece Western.png map caption Western Thrace within Greece mapsize1 200px established ... iso code website URL http www.mathra.gr footnotes Western Thrace or simply Thrace lang el ... Greece . It is also called Greek Thrace to distinguish it from Eastern Thrace , which lies east of the river ... as Northern Thrace . Thrace is divided into the three peripheral units of Greece peripheral units ... Prefecture Drama , Kavala Prefecture Kavala and Thasos form the East Macedonia and Thrace Periphery . Area Demographics The approximate area of Thrace is 8,578 km with a population of 368,993 2006 ... recognised minority of Greece. Of these, the majority 67 are of Turks of Western Thrace Turkish origin ... Romani subgroup Roma of Thrace are also mainly Muslim, unlike their ethnic kin in other parts of the country ... seeking work mainly in the urban areas, in Thrace there was no immigration of foreigners. Thrace ..., Thrace had a mixed population of Turkic peoples Turks and Bulgarians , with a strong Greeks Greek ... most of its European territory, including Thrace. Western Thrace was occupied by Bulgarian troops ... Rhodopes and Western Thrace from invading Bulgarians. The victors quickly fell into dispute on how ... Bulgaria was defeated, but gained Western Thrace under the terms of the Treaty of Bucharest, 1913 ... Empire with which Bulgaria had sided lost World War I and as a result Western Thrace was withdrawn ... neuilly.html Treaty of Neuilly, article 27 3 , 48 ref Western Thrace was under temporary management ... of the prime ministers of the main allies of the Entente powers except USA Western Thrace was given ... respective minority populations in the Thrace region out of areas they controlled. A large population of Greeks in Eastern Thrace, and Black Sea coastal and southern Bulgaria, was expelled south and west into Greek controlled Thrace. Concurrently, a large population of Bulgarians was forced from the region ... more details
North Thrace or Northern Thrace , Severna Trakiya as opposed to Western Thrace and Eastern Thrace to the south constitutes the northern part of the historical region of Thrace . It is located in Southern Bulgaria and refers to the whole territory south of the Balkan Mountains Balkan and east of the Mesta River to the Bulgarian border in south and to the Black Sea in east. It encompasses Sredna Gora , the Upper Thracian Plain and most of the Rhodopes . The climate divers from continental to transitional continental and mountainous. The highest temperature recorded in Bulgaria occurred here it was 45.2 Celsius C at Sadovo in 1916. Important rivers are the Maritsa and its tributaries. Important cities include Plovdiv , Burgas , Stara Zagora , Pazardzhik , Asenovgrad , Haskovo , Smolyan , Kardzhali , Yambol and Sliven . The Ottoman Turks created the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia in northern Thrace in 1878. The region was annexed to the Bulgarian kingdom in 1885. ref http books.google.com books?id u9Lq 8Ozf5cC&pg PA1518&dq northern thrace rumelia&hl bg&ei xIvvTK3jOIzvsgbt24z Cg&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 4&ved 0CDUQ6AEwAw v onepage&q northern 20thrace 20 20rumelia&f false Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations L R, James Minahan, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 0313321116, p. 1518. ref References Reflist bulgaria geo stub coord missing Bulgaria Category Thrace Category Historical regions in Bulgaria bg fr Thrace du nord ro Tracia de Nord ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Hawks of Thrace HoT is a possibly defunct, anti Turkey Turkish , pro Kurdistan Kurdish independence Greece Greek terrorist organization based in Thrace , Greece. ref name PROFILE http www.tkb.org Group.jsp?groupID 51 Hawks of Thrace MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base ref The HoT attacked the Turkish Consul representative consulate general on 8 February 1999 in support of PKK leader Abdullah calan . This was the only attack this group has ever made. HoT attacked the Turkish Greek population in Thrace throughout the 1990s, particularly politicians running for office in the Greek government. Until 1999, the group s activity was limited to rioting and vandalism. ref name PROFILE References reflist Category Terrorism in Greece Greece stub ... more details
Refimprove date October 2007 Greekmusic Music of Thrace is the music of Thrace , a region in Southeastern Europe spread over southern Bulgaria Northern Thrace , northeastern Greece Western Thrace , and European Turkey Eastern Thrace . The music of Thrace contains a written history that extends back to the antiquity ... Thrace in northeastern Greece. Types of dances Chelebinsko Chain Dance of the Gentlemen is a choreography ... song from Northern Bulgarian Thrace that has inspired many choreographies, all of them with extensive ... region in Northern Bulgarian Thrace, and was first introduced in the States by Dick Crum. Krivo Sadovsko Horo Twisted chain dance from Sadovo, Northern Thrace Very fast dance, with special rhythm 13 ..., Northern Thrace. Pravo Trakiisko Horo Pravo Trakiisko Horo Straight Thracian chain dance is from Northern Thrace. It has very little in common with the simple Pravo horo straight chain dance . It s a challenging ... Trakiiska Rachenitsa is a highly stylized rachenitsa from Northern Thrace with lots of arm work. Trite Pati Trite Pati the three times is a dance from Northern Thrace. Like some other Thracian dances, it is also danced in Western Greek Thrace. Kuluriastos Kuluriastos is a Greek dance from Western Thrace. It has a slower Zonaradikos part, and a faster part where the beginning of the line loops ... idia st oniro mu. Sfarlis Sfarlis is a beginner s dance from Western Thrace. Troiro Many Bulgarian dances from Northern Thrace have cousins very similar dances in Western Greek Thrace, and this is one ... from Eastern Turkish Thrace. It reminds me of the so called tsigansko horo gypsy chain dance , but the dances ... as they escort her to the church. Performed in Western Thrace. Kouseftos derived from kousevo ... Thrace which means to run . It differs from other Thracian dances in that, instead of being danced in a circle, its dance progression takes the form of a labyrinth. Performed in Western Thrace ... her housekeeping ability. This dance is performed in Western Thrace. A similar dance called rachenitsa ... more details
tourmarchai at Bizye and Sozopolis, Thrace Sozopolis . Another, called tourmarches tes Thrakes of Thrace is also attested, possibly the strategos deputy at Arcadiopolis. ref name DOAKS The 9th ... Diocese of Thrace , except for the country along the Danube overrun by the Bulgars, but after ... the eastern half of modern Eastern Thrace , although it extended north along the coast to include Anchialos . ref Pertusi 1952 , pp. 157 158 ref From the 11th century, Thrace and Macedonia appear ... Empire Category States and territories established in 680 Category Medieval Thrace bg fr Thrace th me it Thrake ... more details
. ref Homer. Iliad , 6.130 6.140. ref See also Commonscat Lycurgue Thrace Lycurgus Cup References reflist ... Press place London year 2005 isbn 0714122556 Category Mythological kings of Thrace Category Greek mythology ... Driant cs Lyk rgos de Lykurg Thrakien es Licurgo Tracia fr Lycurgue Thrace it Licurgo mitologia lt ... more details
Berga lang grc was an ancient Greek city located in Thrace , located in the region between the river Strymon and the river Nestos.It was founded by colonists from Thasos ref An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,Index ref ref An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 859 ref . Berga is located in the current prefecture of Serres . It was considered on of the most important cities of ancient Bisaltia . Her name is owed likely in the first born son of a figure from Greek mythology called Bisaltia Bisalti named Bisaltia Bergo .Ancient Berga was most likely an important commercial station in the navigable river Struma river Strymon , in the banks of the ancient lake Kerkini . Thasos Thasians had been migrated in the 6th century BC because her geography location, her agricultural and mining wealth it evolved into a colony of Thasos . The city acquired sovereign role, while facilitated the locomotion of goods from Aegean sea and Thassos to the Thracian hinterland and the rest of the ancient Balkans . It began to lose its importance after the foundation of Amphipolis , it continued however being a self sufficient city in Hellenistic and Ancient Rome Roman times. It was a rich city and that minted her own currencies from 476 to 356 BC the currencies they depicted Silenus with a nymph or Silenus or a fish carp or square crisscross in form of swastikas and had the following words inscribed, lang grc or lang grc or lang grc .Berga gained fame in the antiquity from the comical poet Antiphanes ... . See also List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia Greek Greek colonies in Thrace References Reflist Category Greek colonies in Thrace Category Geography of ancient Thrace Category Thrace Category ... more details
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