Thrace
Americannoun
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an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
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a modern region corresponding to the S part of the Roman province: now divided between Greece Western Thrace and Turkey Eastern Thrace.
noun
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an ancient country in the E Balkan Peninsula: successively under the Persians, Macedonians, and Romans
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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
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It marks the outer edge of the European Union, separating Greece's Evros region and the Turkish territory of East Thrace.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
The Villa was showing a special exhibit about Thrace, an ancient region spanning modern Bulgaria and parts of Greece, Turkey and Romania.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2025
In Greece, for instance, Sitaridou co-introduced a pioneering new course on Pontic Greek at the Democritus University of Thrace since the number of speakers of Pontic Greek is also dwindling.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024
The Ottomans steadily took control of the European portion of the Byzantine Empire, the area that is now northern Greece, southern Bulgaria, and Thrace, the western part of modern Turkey.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The Greeks said vaguely that he came from Thrace, home of a rude, fierce people in the northeast of Greece.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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