Crossword clues for thracian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thracian \Thra"cian\, a. Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Thrace.
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ Thracian may refer to:
In history:
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Thracians, an ancient Indo-European people
- List of Thracian tribes
- Thraco-Cimmerian
- Thraco-Illyrian
- Thraco-Roman
- Thracian language, an extinct language spoken by the Thracians
- Thracian mythology, the mythology of the Thracians
- Thracian horseman, an ancient cult
- Thraex/Thracian, a type of Roman gladiator
People
- Maximinus the Thracian, a Roman emperor
- Leo I the Thracian, a Roman emperor
- Dionysius the Thracian, an Ancient Greek grammarian
In geography:
- Thracian Sea, a sea part of the Aegean Sea
- Thracian Chersonese, the ancient name of the Gallipoli peninsula
- Thracian Basin, a basin in Turkey
- Thracian Plain, a plain in Bulgaria
In arts:
- The Thracian Wonder, a play
- Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari, an ancient tomb
- Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak, an ancient tomb
Other uses:
- Thracian Bulgarians, the ethnic Bulgarian people from Northern Thrace
- Thracian Greeks, the ethnic Greek people from Western Thrace
- Turks of Western Thrace, the ethnic Turkish people from Western Thrace
Usage examples of "thracian".
The formidable navy of Basiliscus pursued its prosperous navigation from the Thracian Bosphorus to the coast of Africa.
Thus the Tauric Chersonnese, the Cimbrian Chersonnese, the Thracian Chersonnese, the Cnidan Chersonnese, et cetera.
Instead of securing his fidelity, these favors served only to inflame the ambition of the Thracian peasant, who deemed his fortune inadequate to his merit, as long as he was constrained to acknowledge a superior.
Such as are on the other side are called Dacians, and are either a branch of the Getae or Thracians belonging to the Dacian race that once inhabited Rhodope.
He has made the Thracians and Illyrians and Molossians and many other warring tribes into allies or outright colonies of Macedonia.
Little Greeks or Thracians or Celts or whatever other nationality the nurserymaids might happen to be.
The Illyrians are disciplined and well-led, the Thracians ferocious and many, the Olynthians rich enough to hire the best mercenaries.
Then he passed the Thracian mountains, and many a barbarous tribe, Paeons and Dardans and Triballi, till he came to the Ister stream, and the dreary Scythian plains.
Instead of ignoble death and defeat this day, our sons and allies are but hours away from seeing the head of our enemy, Agamemnon, lifted high on a spike, while our Thracians and Trojans and Pelasgians and Cicones and Paeonians and Paphlagonians and Halizonians have lived to watch the end of this long war at last, and soon will be raking up the gold of defeated Argives, soon will be sweeping up the well-earned armor of Agamemnon and his men.
For never yet before had they seen seafaring ships, neither the Scythians mingled with the Thracians, nor the Sigynni, nor yet the Graucenii, nor the Sindi that now inhabit the vast desert plain of Laurium.
According to Genesis, the descendants of the Japheth who escaped out of the Flood with Noah are the Ionians, the inhabitants of the Morea, the dwellers on the Cilician coast of Asia Minor, the Cyprians, the Dodoneans of Macedonia, the Iberians, and the Thracians.
He reminded himself, firmly, that he had chosen Basil to command the katyusha rocket force because the man was one of the few Thracian cataphracts who had a liking and affinity for the new weapons.
The katyushas would be charging at the Malwa from their hiding place in the northeast woods, followed by the Thracian and Illyrian cataphracts.
Then there were the squabbles and fights that flared within an army made up of such ancient enemies as Paionians, Illyrians, Macedonians, Athenians and Thracians.
There was a time when the rocky barriers of the Thracian Bosphorus gave way and the Black Sea subsided.