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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • , 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and Vranje in the Morava valley, Northern Thrace, parts of Eastern Thrace ... most notably Macedonia. Albania, and Thrace remained Ottoman. It formally ...
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  • held Macedonia, Albania, and most of Thrace in the First Balkan War and ... Eastern Roumelia, Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace. ===Policies of the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ===Against Thrace (1265)=== During the reign of Berke there was also a raid against Thrace. In ...
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  • marry. Hipparchia’s family was from Maroneia in Thrace. Her brother, Metrocles, was a devoted disciple of Crates. Hipparchia herself became a dedicated ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Bosporan Kingdom, or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus, was an ancient state, located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Adrianople and reconquered northeastern Thrace. Meanwhile, Stefan Uroš ... overran Bulgarian-controlled northeastern Thrace, but Ivan Alexander rushed ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • on the coasts of Colchis, Illyria, Thrace, Egypt, Cyrenaica, southern Gaul, east and northeast of the Iberian peninsula, Iberia and Taurica. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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