thrace in English

noun
1
an ancient country that was west of the Black Sea and north of the Aegean Sea. It is now divided between Turkey, Bulgaria, and Greece.

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1. In late May 713 the Opsikion troops rebelled in Thrace.

2. An area of Thrace was subjugated and levied with severe duties.

3. Archeion was a town of ancient Thrace on the Bosphorus, inhabited during Roman times

4. Antiochus also made some attempt to get a footing in Thrace.

5. I served in the Roman auxiliary when I was yet of Thrace.

6. He demanded a trip to market to obtain something of Thrace in your man's honor.

7. In 1087 the Pechenegs raided into Thrace, and Alexios crossed into Moesia to retaliate but failed to take Dorostolon (Silistra).

8. Proud Balkan Mountains... ... next to them the Danube sparkles... ... the sun shines over Thrace... ... and blazes over Pirin.

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10. Hippocrates taught and practiced medicine throughout his life, traveling at least as far as Thessaly, Thrace, and the Sea of Marmara.

11. By the mediation of Verina, Basiliscus obtained the Imperial pardon, and was punished merely with banishment to Heraclea Sintica, in Thrace.

12. In 188 BC, the Romans invaded Thrace, and warfare continued until 46 AD when Rome finally conquered the region.

13. Tervel took advantage of the disorder in Byzantium to raid Thrace in 712, plundering as far as the vicinity of Constantinople.

14. A rapid march through Thrace and Macedonia brought him to Thessaly, where he repulsed the Thessalian cavalry who tried to impede him.

15. Matthew held out in Thrace until 1357, when he too abdicated, leaving John V Palaiologos as the sole master of a rump state.

16. The invasion began in spring 480 BC, when the Persian army crossed the Hellespont and marched through Thrace and Macedon to Thessaly.

17. The two sides of Istanbul's metro are connected under the Bosphorus by the Marmaray tunnel, inaugurated in 2013 as the first rail connection between Thrace and Anatolia.

18. A place where I had never expected to find myself: the ancient city of Philippopolis, capital of Thrace. A well preserved amphitheatre, golden in the morning sun.

19. When in 331 BC Zopyrion, Alexander's viceroy in Thrace, "not wishing to sit idle", invaded Scythia and besieged Pontic Olbia, he suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Scythians and lost his life.

20. The ancient Greek historians Herodotus and Eudoxus of Rhodes related the Armenians to the Phrygians —who entered Asia Minor from Thrace —and to the peoples of the ancient kingdom upon …

21. Yet, these women were Bacchants, that is, Dionysian orgiasts, and in other versions Dionysus himself directs them to kill Orpheus because the bard, in his devotion to Apollo the sun-god, has prevented the wine-god's acceptance in Thrace.

22. By the end of the decade, Bulgarian Bishoprics had expelled most of the Greek clerics, thus the whole of northern Bulgaria, as well as the northern parts of Thrace and Macedonia had effectively seceded from the Patriarchate

23. Bosporus The Bosporus or Bosphorus is a narrow, natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in northwestern Turkey.It forms part of the continental boundary between Europe and Asia, and divides Turkey by separating Anatolia from Thrace.

24. Chersonese peninsula south of Thrace, from Greek khersonesos "peninsula," from khersos "dry land" + nēsos "island," also " (flooded) land near a river, alluvial land," which is of uncertain origin; traditionally from PIE root sna- "to swim," but this is now generally rejected.