Search results for "Thrace" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and in May 1666, the Ottoman army departed from Thrace for southern Greece, form where it would embark for Crete. === The siege of Candia ends === ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- the news that his beloved half-brother was dying in Thrace. He immediately set off to visit him, and arrived in time to watch Caepio die. Cato was overwhelmed ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 03:51, 6 November 2022
- Vetus, Thessaly, and parts of Illyria and Thrace. In the third or fourth century ... They continued to occupy Macedonia, Thrace, Moesia, and most of Greece ...50 KB (7,230 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- along the Danube frontier in the diocese of Thrace and largely govern themselves. The Goths settled in the Empire had, as a result of the treaties ...21 KB (3,189 words) - 18:01, 30 April 2023
- codified. Arrows were tossed to read destiny, from Thrace to pagan Mecca. In Yoruba traditional religion, the Ifá oracle is consulted via a string of ...22 KB (3,568 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- and ravaged large sections of Thrace. This came to an end with the death of Krum on April 13, 814 C.E., and the internal power struggles that ...24 KB (3,706 words) - 18:00, 30 April 2023
- The barbarian nation of the Huns, which was in Thrace, became so great that more than a hundred cities were captured and Constantinople almost ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 18:24, 21 August 2023
- suggest that his father was Oeagrus (the king of Thrace) and that his mother was the muse Calliope, This opinion is held by Bakchylides, Plato ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- areas). Turks settled extensively in Thrace. After their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews settled in Thessaloniki (known in this ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- from Eastern Macedonia and Western Thrace. Anticipation of a German ... Greek troops were evacuated from Western Thrace. By this time, the total ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations that developed between 3000-1200 B.C.E. in Greece and the basin of the ...21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- psiloi. The best peltasts were the Agrianians from Thrace. ... Cassander ruled in Greece, Lysimachus in Thrace, Seleucus I, Nicator ("the ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- successfully concluded his excursion in Thrace.Demosthenes, On the Crown ... and, a year later, Philip campaigned in Thrace.Demosthenes, Third Philippic ...80 KB (11,861 words) - 09:32, 28 January 2024
- Europe to strengthen Persia's hold of Thrace and Macedon, which had been ... Mardonius, to Greece. Mardonius conquered Thrace and thus compelled Alexander ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- his life, traveling at least as far as Thessaly, Thrace, and the Sea of Marmara. Margotta|1968|p=66 He probably died in Larissa at the age of ...33 KB (4,488 words) - 14:32, 13 July 2023
- Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Greece, and Thrace. Approximately 250 to 318 bishops attended, from every region of the Empire except Britain ...32 KB (4,986 words) - 17:21, 28 March 2024
- lords and 3,000 horsemen. His route lay across Thrace, through Illyria, on the eastern shores of the Adriatic and Picenum, in northeastern Italy. The ...29 KB (4,494 words) - 03:48, 1 May 2023
- to the recovery of parts of Greece, Macedonia and Thrace by the year 814 C.E. By the early years of the eleventh century, the Bulgarian Khanate had ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 17:54, 16 May 2020
- troops, he invaded Bulgaria again, devastating Thrace, capturing the city of Philippopolis, and massacring its inhabitants. Niceforus responded by fortifying ...31 KB (4,615 words) - 14:14, 28 April 2023
- the Bogomils ("Friends of God") of Thrace. Their doctrines have numerous resemblances to those of the Bogomils and the earlier Paulicians ...32 KB (4,952 words) - 00:09, 1 December 2023
