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- In the autumn of 920, the Bulgarian army campaigned deep into Thrace ... Bulgarians launched a campaign in Eastern Thrace. They captured and garrisoned ...15 KB (2,004 words) - 20:31, 28 March 2024
- Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was born at Abdera in Thrace and lived from around 460 B.C.E. to 370 B.C.E. Democritus developed ...8 KB (1,214 words) - 09:28, 28 January 2024
- , and, according to lore, Ares withdrew to Thrace after he was discovered on ... Ares, embarrassed, sped away to his homeland, Thrace. In a much later ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- mass of his fellow-townsmen who sailed to Thrace when their homeland was attacked ... From Thrace he moved to the court of Polycrates, King of Samos. He ...9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- and Vranje in the Morava valley, Northern Thrace, parts of Eastern Thrace ... most notably Macedonia. Albania, and Thrace remained Ottoman. It formally ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 14:57, 2 May 2023
- held Macedonia, Albania, and most of Thrace in the First Balkan War and ... Eastern Roumelia, Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace. ===Policies of the ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- The consequence was his banishment to Thrace and the appointment of Felix ... and then banished him to Beroea in Thrace, sending him 500 gold pieces ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 11:07, 13 February 2022
- known as the Third Servile War. Probably born in Thrace, he may have been a former soldier who deserted the Roman army, was captured, and sent to the ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- ===Against Thrace (1265)=== During the reign of Berke there was also a raid against Thrace. In ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- marry. Hipparchia’s family was from Maroneia in Thrace. Her brother, Metrocles, was a devoted disciple of Crates. Hipparchia herself became a dedicated ...7 KB (1,133 words) - 06:16, 11 January 2024
- of Ptolemy and Rhodes's allies in Thrace and around the Sea of Marmara. ... at the island of Thasos off the coast of Thrace. Philip's general Metrodorus ...30 KB (4,711 words) - 00:32, 27 December 2021
- The Bosporan Kingdom, or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was an ancient state, located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the ...15 KB (2,433 words) - 19:50, 20 November 2023
- Phineas, a king of Thrace, had the gift of prophesy. Zeus, angry that Phineas revealed too much, punished him by putting him on an island with ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- Adrianople and reconquered northeastern Thrace. Meanwhile, Stefan Uroš ... overran Bulgarian-controlled northeastern Thrace, but Ivan Alexander rushed ...28 KB (4,067 words) - 06:32, 11 March 2024
- The naval Battle of Aegospotami took place in 404 B.C.E. and was the last major battle of the Peloponnesian War. In the battle, a Spartan fleet ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 11:30, 20 September 2023
- version is an old custom on Christmas Eve in Thrace. A walnut filling is more prevalent in the Levant, while pistachios and pistachio-almond fillings ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- dominion over lands in Judea, Greece, Asia, Thrace, Africa, Italy, and the city of Rome. The pope was ceded the entire Western Roman Empire, while Constantine ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- on the coasts of Colchis, Illyria, Thrace, Egypt, Cyrenaica, southern Gaul, east and northeast of the Iberian peninsula, Iberia and Taurica. ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- they helped Seuthes II make himself king of Thrace. In 399 B.C.E. Xenophon joined the Spartans, who were at war with Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
- a name connected with Thrace and Thracian royalty. Herod_6.39.1 [http://www ... between his two homes, in Athens and in Thrace. His family connections brought ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 22:51, 5 May 2023
- army crossed the Bosporus, subjugated eastern Thrace, Macedonia submitted voluntarily, and crossed the Danube. The purpose of this war can only have ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- Bulgaria comprises portions of the classical regions of Thrace, Moesia ... === Thrace === Thracians, a group of ancient Indo-European peoples ...61 KB (8,943 words) - 18:41, 22 November 2023
- and Eurytus were Xenophilus of Chalcis, Thrace; Phanto of Phlius; Echecrates of Phlius; Diocles of Phlius; and Polymnastus of Phlius. Philolaus ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace ca. 460 B.C.E. - died ca 370 B.C.E.).Encyclopedia Britannica. Democritus.Internet Encyclopedia of ...29 KB (4,278 words) - 04:19, 31 January 2023
- of the Gallipoli area on the coast of Thrace. In 1914 he was appointed ... recovered all of Anatolia and eastern Thrace from the Greeks and Armenians ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- in the imperial provinces of Pontus, Asia, of Thrace. The papal legates to this ecumenical council protested the elevation of the Byzantine patriarch ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 11:44, 13 February 2022
- time), and the Muslim population of Western Thrace (about 86,000 in 1922). Article 14 of the treaty granted the islands of Imbros and Tenedos "special ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- The place of Aesop's birth is uncertain—Thrace, Phrygia, Ethiopia, Samos Island, Athens, Sardis and Amorium all claim the honor. According ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- ) is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east. The name ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 07:43, 23 January 2023
- on the coasts of Colchis, Illyria, Thrace, Egypt, Cyrenaica, southern ... followed by Cyprus and the coasts of Thrace, the Sea of Marmara, and ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- of Thessaly, Central Macedonia and Thrace. They constitute key economic ... and Eastern Macedonia as well as in Thrace at places like Komotini, ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- exchange for peace and territorial concessions in Thrace. At the beginning of 864 Boris was secretly baptized at Pliska by an embassy of Byzantine clergymen ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- an oath to convene a church synod at Heraclea in Thrace, invite the pope to attend it, and submit to his arbitration. [[Image:Semissis-Anastasius ...17 KB (2,672 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2022
- The goddess was not welcome among the Scythians north of Thrace. From Herodotus (4.76-7) it is made clear that the Scythian Anacharsis (sixth ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- Then, in late May 713, Opsikian troops rebelled in Thrace. Several of their officers penetrated the imperial palace and blinded Philippicus on ...20 KB (3,013 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- Mardonius campaigned in 492 B.C.E. in Thrace to consolidate Persian power ... fight. The Persians were first driven from Thrace and then, after the battle ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 17:01, 27 January 2023
- Pontus only the affairs of Pontus; and those in Thrace only Thracian affairs. Unless invited, bishops are not to go outside their diocese to perform ...21 KB (3,217 words) - 17:20, 28 March 2024
- ) is a strait that forms the boundary between the Thrace and Anatolian sections of Turkey. The world's narrowest strait used for international ...18 KB (2,647 words) - 14:59, 9 February 2022
- sources also state that it was produced in ancient Thrace (southeast Europe) and it is certainly part of modern cuisine in Bulgaria and Turkey, parts ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 06:43, 11 January 2024
- he was "sentenced to banishment at Bizya, in Thrace, were he suffered greatly from cold, hunger, and neglect." Butler's Lives of ...20 KB (3,077 words) - 01:06, 9 November 2022
- 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
