Thrace

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geographical region historical region

Thrace is a historical and geographical region in Southeast Europe, now divided among Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, known for its strategic location between the Balkans and the Aegean and Black Seas.

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All labels observed (27)

Label	Occurrences
Thrace canonical	163
Eastern Thrace	20
Western Thrace	10
ancient Thrace	5
Byzantine Thrace	4
Thrace (Greece)	3
Theme of Thrace	2
Thrace region	2
Thracia	2
Thracian Chersonese	2
Ancient Thrace	1
East Thrace	1
Evros	1
Greek Thrace	1
Hellespontine Thrace	1
Northern Thrace	1
Thrace (Turkish part)	1
Thrace (in some versions of the myth)	1
Thrace (parts)	1
Thrace region (ancient)	1
Thrace region (historical)	1
Thrace region of Greece	1
Thrace region of Turkey	1
Thrace–Macedonia frontier	1
Thracian Lowland	1
Turkish Thrace	1
historical Thrace	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical region ⓘ historical region ⓘ
ancientPeople	Thracians ⓘ
borderedBy	Aegean Sea ⓘ Black Sea ⓘ
capitalUnderRomans	Perinthus ⓘ Philippopolis ⓘ
climate	continental climate ⓘ transitional Mediterranean climate ⓘ
conqueredBy	Macedon ⓘ surface form: Macedonian Empire Achaemenid Empire ⓘ surface form: Persian Empire Roman Empire ⓘ
continent	Europe ⓘ
crossedBy	Evros River ⓘ Maritsa ⓘ surface form: Maritsa River Tundzha River ⓘ
hasMountainRange	Rhodope Mountains ⓘ Rhodope Mountains ⓘ surface form: Strandzha Mountains
hasPart	Thrace self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Eastern Thrace Thrace self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Northern Thrace Thrace self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Western Thrace
historicallyInhabitedBy	Thracians ⓘ
historicalRegionOf	Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: ancient Greece
knownFor	position between Balkans and Aegean Sea ⓘ position between Balkans and Black Sea ⓘ strategic location between Europe and Asia ⓘ
laterKnownAs	Constantinople (probable) ⓘ surface form: Constantinople Istanbul ⓘ
locatedIn	Bulgaria ⓘ Greece ⓘ Balkans ⓘ surface form: Southeast Europe Turkey ⓘ
majorCity	Adrianople ⓘ Byzantium ⓘ Philippopolis ⓘ
mentionedIn	Herodotus ⓘ Homeric epics ⓘ
modernCountrySubdivision	Thrace region of Bulgaria ⓘ Thrace self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Thrace region of Greece Thrace self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Thrace region of Turkey
modernName	Edirne ⓘ
partiallyIn	Bulgaria ⓘ Greece ⓘ Turkey ⓘ
partOf	Balkans ⓘ Byzantine Empire ⓘ Ottoman Empire ⓘ Roman Empire ⓘ
religiousCult	Dionysus worship ⓘ Orphic Mysteries ⓘ surface form: Orphic mysteries

Referenced by (230)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aegean Sea → borderedBy → Thrace ⓘ

Macedonia (Greece) → bordersRegion → Thrace ⓘ

this entity surface form: Thrace (Greece)

Treaty of Sèvres → affectedTerritory → Thrace ⓘ

Edirne → locatedIn → Thrace ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Thrace

Edirne → historicalRegion → Thrace ⓘ

Ares → worshipCenter → Thrace ⓘ

Ares → associatedRegion → Thrace ⓘ

Bosporus → isBoundaryBetween → Thrace ⓘ

Balkan Mountains → separates → Thrace ⓘ

this entity surface form: Thracian Lowland

Turks → culturalRegion → Thrace ⓘ

Byzantium → locatedIn → Thrace ⓘ

Moesia → borderedBy → Thrace ⓘ

Turkish nationalism → region → Thrace ⓘ

Byzantine–Ottoman wars → mainTheater → Thrace ⓘ

Dacian tribes → culturalRegion → Thrace ⓘ

Surname Law of 1934 → region → Thrace ⓘ

this entity surface form: Thrace (Turkish part)

Northern Greece → containsRegion → Thrace ⓘ

Northern Greece → hasCulturalRegion → Thrace ⓘ

Emperor Marcian → placeOfBirth → Thrace ⓘ

subject surface form: Marcian

Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari → category → Thrace ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ancient Thrace

Maritsa → passesThroughRegion → Thrace ⓘ

Maritsa → historicalRegion → Thrace ⓘ

this entity surface form: ancient Thrace

Battle of Adrianople in 378 → location → Thrace ⓘ

subject surface form: Battle of Adrianople (378)

Samothrace → partOf → Thrace ⓘ

this entity surface form: Thrace region (historical)

Thrace → hasPart → Thrace self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Western Thrace

Thrace → hasPart → Thrace self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Thrace

Thrace → hasPart → Thrace self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Northern Thrace

Thrace → modernCountrySubdivision → Thrace self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Thrace region of Greece

Thrace → modernCountrySubdivision → Thrace self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Thrace region of Turkey

Macedon → borderedBy → Thrace ⓘ

Thracians → ethnicGroupOf → Thrace ⓘ

Thracians → inhabitedRegion → Thrace ⓘ

Miltiades the Younger → residence → Thrace ⓘ

this entity surface form: Thracian Chersonese

Miltiades the Younger → ruled → Thrace ⓘ

this entity surface form: Thracian Chersonese

Treaty of Constantinople (1913) → regionAffected → Thrace ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Thrace

Gallipoli Peninsula → locatedIn → Thrace ⓘ

Meglen region → borderedByHistoricalRegion → Thrace ⓘ

Serbian Empire → territoryIncludes → Thrace ⓘ

this entity surface form: Thrace (parts)

Selimiye Mosque → locatedIn → Thrace ⓘ

Balkan League → regionTargeted → Thrace ⓘ

Democritus → birthPlace → Thrace ⓘ

Brasidas → strategicRegionOfOperations → Thrace ⓘ

Battle of Amphipolis → location → Thrace ⓘ

Macedonian Kingdom under the Antipatrids and Antigonids → hasBorderWith → Thrace ⓘ

Protagoras → birthPlace → Thrace ⓘ

Bulgarian schism → hasHistoricalRegion → Thrace ⓘ

Ottoman Fifth Army → areaOfOperations → Thrace ⓘ

Turkish War of Independence → location → Thrace ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Thrace

Kırkpınar oil wrestling festival → culturalRegion → Thrace ⓘ