Thracia ( thrace )
Thracia in ancient times was the area surrounded
from black sea at eastern part, vardar
(aixos ) river at western part, danube at northern part and aegean sea at
southern part. The thrace of turkey
today covers the edirne , tekirdag, european part of istanbul and
Gelibolu peninsula from Canakkale city .
Districts name was derived from indo-european thracians. Folks of Thrace living in balcanians and rhodopes
were primitive and warrior as the thracian people from aegean and marmara costs
were peacefull and cool.
Thracians were very good warriors but they weren’t able to found a strong political empire. They had lived for centuries in tribe culture. It’s known
that the thracians were supplying slaves and mercenaries to
Greece. They took part in roman
army as mercenaries as well.
Greeks colonized the aegean sea costs of Thrace in 7 century B.C . Later Persian empire darius dominated the
thrace in 512 B.C. Macedonians and roman empire reigned the thrace land afterwards.
Thrace became very important as
the positioning a natural border between darube
and Istanbul.
Bulgarian empire was founded in 7th century and Bulgarians
started to attack thrace . Roman empire konstantinos the 6th formed the
thracian thema of byzantium to protect the Istanbul city from invasions of
Bulgarians.
Thrace was ruled by turks after the conquest to Gelibolu in 1354. Thrace was named as
Rumeli by Turks.
Thracia has a world wide reputation with its great warriors
among these wariors Spartacus is the most prominent one
Spartacus was a Thracian enslaved by the Romans, who led a
large slave uprising in Southern Italy in 73–71 BC. Before being defeated, his
army of escaped gladiators and slaves defeated several Roman legions in what is
known as the Third Servile War.
Today there is a serial broadcasting the story of Spartacus
Blood and sand attracts millions of audiences .
Blood and sand Spartacus made this great warrior quite popular in
nowadays