Thrace
an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
a modern region corresponding to the S part of the Roman province: now divided between Greece (Western Thrace ) and Turkey (Eastern Thrace ).
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How to use Thrace in a sentence
Only head and lyre remained intact, floating down the River Hebrus from Thrace to the sea.
Ann Wroe’s ‘Orpheus’: Why the Mythological Muse Haunts Us | Ann Wroe | May 31, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSome of these were on the coasts of Macedonia and Thrace, and some on the banks of the Strymon.
Xerxes | Jacob AbbottThe eighth labour was to obtain the mares of Diomedes, king of the Bistones, in Thrace, which fed upon human flesh.
The Mysteries of All Nations | James GrantThrace, long barbarous, began also to rise out of the condition of inferiority in which it had so long languished.
History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2 | Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.In Greece, Macedonia, and Thrace, there are very few diseases; but what they have are principally burning fevers and phrenzies.
The Book of Curiosities | I. Platts
Indeed in Homer it is not but which means Thracian, of or belonging to the country called Thrace, .
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 | W. E. Gladstone
British Dictionary definitions for Thrace
/ (θreɪs) /
an ancient country in the E Balkan Peninsula: successively under the Persians, Macedonians, and Romans
a region of SE Europe, corresponding to the S part of the ancient country: divided by the Maritsa River into Western Thrace (Greece) and Eastern Thrace (Turkey)
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