Thrace

[ threys ]

noun

1. an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
2. a modern region corresponding to the S part of the Roman province: now divided between Greece Western Thrace and Turkey Eastern Thrace.

Thrace

/ θreɪs /

noun

1. an ancient country in the E Balkan Peninsula: successively under the Persians, Macedonians, and Romans
2. 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)

Example Sentences

Only head and lyre remained intact, floating down the River Hebrus from Thrace to the sea.

From The Daily Beast

Some of these were on the coasts of Macedonia and Thrace, and some on the banks of the Strymon.

From Project Gutenberg

The eighth labour was to obtain the mares of Diomedes, king of the Bistones, in Thrace, which fed upon human flesh.

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Thrace, long barbarous, began also to rise out of the condition of inferiority in which it had so long languished.

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In Greece, Macedonia, and Thrace, there are very few diseases; but what they have are principally burning fevers and phrenzies.

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Indeed in Homer it is not but which means Thracian, of or belonging to the country called Thrace, .

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