Thracians
The ancient Thracians were a group of Indo-European tribes who spoke the Thracian language - a rare branch of the Indo-European language family. Those peoples lived in Thrace: the eastern, central and southern part of the Balkan peninsula, and the adjacent parts of Eastern Europe. The Pomak claimed to be descendants of this old Trachians.[1] Today People from Thrace, no matter if they are Turks, Bulgarians, Greeks, Pomak or Xoraxane Roma, said simple we are Thracians.[2]
Thracians Media
Bronze head of Seuthes III from his tomb.
Illustration of 5th–4th century BC Thracian peltast.
The Odrysian kingdom in its maximum extent under Sitalces (431-424 BC).[3]
Dacia during the reign of Burebista (82/61 BC - 45/44 BC)
Skudrian (Thracian) soldier of the Achaemenid army, c. 480 BC. Xerxes I tomb relief.
Southeastern Europe in the second century BC.
The province of Thracia within the Roman Empire, c. 116 AD
Tribes in Thrace pre-Roman conquest*Own work data from * The Thracians 700 BC-AD 46 (Men-at-Arms) by Christopher Webber and Angus McBride,ISBN-10: 1841763292,2001, * The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace: Orpheus Unmasked (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) by Z. H.
Thracian king and queen. Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak, 4th century BC.
References
- ↑ Christopher Webber, Angus McBride (2001). The Thracians, 700 BC - AD 46. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1841763292.
- ↑ "The Turks of Western Thrace".
- ↑ Cormack & Wilkes 2015.