Crossword clues for thrace
thrace
- Vehicle turned into the ancient region
- Group driving in the country once
- Historic region of SE Europe
- The car breaking down in the country a long time ago
- Birthplace of Spartacus
- Where Spartacus was from
- Old Balkan region
- Bulgaria/Greece/Turkey region
- Balkan homeland of Spartacus
- Ancient Balkan Peninsula region
- Ancient Balkan nation
- Ancient area now covered by parts of Bulgaria and Turkey
- Ancient area in modern Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey
- Region of Greece and Turkey
- Ancient land east of Macedonia
- Ancient Balkan region
- Homeland of Orpheus
- Ancient land on the Aegean
- Homeland of Spartacus
- Colonized by ancient Greeks
- Later a Roman province
- A region and ancient country in the east of the Balkan Peninsula north of the Aegean Sea
- Now divided between Greece and Turkey
- Balkan region
- Greek region
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Greek Thrake, named for the people who inhabited it, whose name is of unknown origin, perhaps Semitic. Related: Thracian.
Wikipedia
Thrace (demonym Thracian ; , Thrākē; Modern , Thráke; , Trakiya ) is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe, centered on the modern borders of Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey. In antiquity, it was also referred to as Europe, prior to the extension of the term to describe the whole continent. As a geographical concept, Thrace designates a region bounded by the Balkan Mountains on the north, Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea on the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea 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 Turkey, it is also called Rumeli. The name comes from the Thracians, an ancient Indo-European people inhabiting Southeastern Europe.
Thrace in Greek mythology was the eponymous heroine and sorceress of Thrace. She was the daughter of Oceanus and Parthenope, and sister of Europa.
The Theme of Thrace was a province (thema or theme) of the Byzantine Empire located in the south-eastern Balkans, comprising varying parts of the eponymous geographic region during its history.
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
- 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
- Mount Thrace, mountain in Antarctica
- Thrace (mythology), the region's eponymous heroine in Greek mythology
- Kara Thrace, a character in the TV series Battlestar Galactica
Usage examples of "thrace".
It will secure for us the trade in amber from the Baltic, in copper and tin from northern Anatolia and in the gold that comes down through Thrace.
Dyrrachium was the northern and Apollonia the southern terminus of the Via Egnatia, the Roman road east to Thrace and the Hellespont.
Thrace conquering the Bessi and taking boat rides down the Danubius all the way to the sea, he would have ensured that Curtius was prosecuted himself.
How does that1 compare with the King who conquered Thrace, Illyria, the Chalcidice, Thessaly, Paionia - and crushed the combined armies of Athens and Thebes?
Behind them came ambassadors from the city states of Athens, Corinth, Thebes and even Sparta, plus representatives from Boeotia, Pherae, Euboea, Thrace, Illyria and Paionia.
The early days were the easiest to recall: the fall of Spartan power, the defeat of Illyria, Paionia and Thrace.
So Pontic agents were sent to water the seeds of an ever-present hatred of Rome among the Bessi and the Scordisci and the other tribes of Moesia and Thrace, with the result that Macedonia began to endure the worst outbreak of barbarian raids and incursions in many years.
In like sort have I read in Histories how the King of Thrace would throw his miserable ghests to be torne in peeces and devoured of his wild Horses, so niggish was that Tyrant of his provender, that he nourished them with the bodies of men.
So they begged of us all the male children that were left in the city and went back to where even now they dwell on the snowy tilths of Thrace.
There were only two Macedonian victors: Philotas won the middle-distance race, and Alexander rode Bucephalus to victory against horsemen from Thrace, Athens, Sparta, Thessaly and Corinth.
He fixed Dalmatius on the Gothic frontier, to which he annexed the government of Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece.
When the despair of the Greek subjects invited Calo- John as their deliverer, they hoped that he would protect their liberty and adopt their laws: they were soon taught to compare the degrees of national ferocity, and to execrate the savage conqueror, who no longer dissembled his intention of dispeopling Thrace, of demolishing the cities, and of transplanting the inhabitants beyond the Danube.
When the despair of the Greek subjects invited Calo- John as their deliverer, they hoped that he would protect their liberty and adopt their laws: they were soon taught to compare the degrees of national ferocity, and to execrate the savage conqueror, who no longer dissembled his intention of dispeopling Thrace, of demolishing the cities, and of transplanting the inhabitants beyond the Danube.
He also made overtures to the Chalcidians in the direction of Thrace, and to the Bottiaeans, to persuade them to join in the revolt.
The Collyridian heresy was carried from Thrace to Arabia by some women, and the name was borrowed from the cake, which they offered to the goddess.