Thracians

The first people to populate southern Bulgaria and the European portion of Turkey were called the Thracians, and the region is still called Thrace today.

Archive 2007-09-30 Maxwell Woods 2007

The Thracians were the first inhabitants of the fertile valley.

Archaeologists Study Terrain Outside Medieval Fortress Cherven 2007

The first people to populate southern Bulgaria and the European portion of Turkey were called the Thracians, and the region is still called Thrace today.

12-18-05 Trip to Topolovgrad Maxwell Woods 2007

The Thracians were the first inhabitants of the fertile valley.

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

The Thracians were a nonliterate tribe often depicted by their southern neighbors as wild savages.

Putting A New Face On Thrace 2004

But starting from this to make war, he perished by the hands of the Thracians, that is both Aristagoras himself and his army, when he was encamped about a certain city and the Thracians desired to go out from it under a truce.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

The Thracians were a brave people, but by no means remarkable for the highest intellectual superiority; yet Spartacus was eminently a man of mind, with large views, and an original genius for organization and war.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

Next to the Thracians were the mercenaries, variously armed, and mixed with Paeonians.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

Herodotus, an historian who lived during the 5th century BCE (and gave the Greek word "history" it's modern meaning) called the Thracians "the most numerous ethnic group, second only to the Hindus".

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Herodotus, an historian who lived during the 5th century BCE (and gave the Greek word "history" it's modern meaning) called the Thracians "the most numerous ethnic group, second only to the Hindus".

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