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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Authorities have issued a red alert for Thursday, warning of very high fire risk in Attica, eastern Central Greece, Evia, the north-eastern Peloponnese, and Thrace.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2025
Of all the ancient cultures clustered around the eastern half of the Mediterranean Sea, whether Egypt, Greece, Persia or Rome’s imperial outreaches, Thrace is surely the least well-known.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 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
Originally from Thrace or Greece, Spartacus was enslaved after being captured in battle and was trained as a gladiator in Capua in central Italy.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The first was very base birth, having once herded sheep in Thrace.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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