Thrace Ancient Greece Map

The dacians occupied dacia a region north of the danube later known as romania.

Thrace ancient greece map. Below is a table of the five largest thracian cities. Abdera is a municipality in the xanthi prefecture of thrace greece. 7 modern usage of the name. A number of cities in dacia and thrace were built on or close to the sites of preexisting dacian or thracian settlements.

Some settlements in this list may have a double entry such as the paeonian astibo and latin astibus it is believed that thracians did not build true cities even. It concerns the armed conflicts of the thracian tribes and their kingdoms in the balkans and in the dacian territories. Map of ancient thrace made by abraham ortelius in 1585 stating both the names thrace and europe. This is a list of ancient cities towns villages and fortresses in and around thrace and dacia a number of these settlements were dacian and thracian but some were celtic greek roman paeonian or persian.

10th century bc up to the 1st century ad in the region defined by ancient greek and latin historians as thrace. In greek mythology. The thracians of the same group inhabited thrace a historical area in southeast europe now consisting of bulgaria greece and turkey. L 4 on the map thrace gr.

In classical antiquity it was a major greek polis on the thracian coast. 1 in greek mythology. Thracian peltasts had a notable influence in ancient greece. Orpheus linus family tree.

Thrace and the thracian odrysian kingdom under sitalces c. Located along the south bank of the daube river it later became central. Alexandroupoli is the largest city with a municipal population of 72 959 according to the 2011 census. The polis lay 17 km east northeast of the mouth of the nestos river almost directly opposite the island of thasos.

The ancient historical area of region thrace is now part of greece bulgaria and turkey since 4000 bc there was the thracian kingdom the area stretched from the caucasus to southwestern europe the thracian empire at that time was of great strategic importance and had many rulers in greek and roman times thracians were known for their martial spirit and their relatively highly developed skills in music and poetry. Ancient thrace and ancient thracians was the ancient region and peoples in the south of europe see also ancient greece ancient greeks dacia and dacians illyria illyrians. This map of macedonia includes thrace dacia and moesia. Thrace was overrun by darius i and xerxes i and added to the persian empire.

The ancient polis is to be distinguished from the municipality which was named in its honor. The history of thracian warfare spans from c. Thrace is bordered by bulgaria to the north turkey to the east the aegean sea greece to the south and the greek region of macedonia to the west. This ancient region and roman province in the balkans was known as moesia.

2 paeonia up to 197 bc 3 odrysian kingdom 480 bc 46 ad 4 pre roman rule up to ad 45 5 post roman rule ad 46 onwards 5 1 byzantine thrace 330 1453 ad 6 material culture.