Thrace is a geographic region in the eastern Balkans, today divided between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey.
Historical entities
- Thrace (satrapy), an Achaemenid Persian province
- Odrysian kingdom, which ruled much of Thrace in Antiquity, formed by the Odrysians
- Thracia, a Roman imperial province
- Diocese of Thrace, a late Roman/early Byzantine province
- Thrace (theme), a middle and late Byzantine province
Geographical/political divisions
- Eastern Thrace, the Turkish part of Thrace, also known as European Turkey
- Northern Thrace, the Bulgarian part of Thrace
- Western Thrace, the Greek part of Thrace, part of the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery
Other uses
- Thrace (mythology), the region's eponymous heroine in Greek mythology
- Kara Thrace, a character in the TV series Battlestar Galactica
- Mount Thrace, mountain in Antarctica
See also
- Thraces
- Thracian (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Thrace
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