Thrace
Thrace is a region in the southeast Balkans, bordered by the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Aegean Sea, the region of Macedonia, and the Balkan Mountains.- Type: historical region
- Description: geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe
- Also known as: “Ancient Thrace and Ancient Thracians”, “Den thrakiske halvøya”, “Província de Tràcia”, “Regió de Tràcia”, “Thraasje”, “Thraciaid”, “Thracie”, “Thrácie”, “Thracien”, “Thracisch rijk”, “Thracische”, “Thrakar”, “Thráke”, “Thraker”, “Thraki”, “Thráki”, “Thrákia”, “Thrakisk”, “Thrasia”, “Thrasië”, “Trachi”, “Tracia ocidental”, “Tracie”, “Trácie”, “Tracien”, “Tracio”, “Tračka”, “Traco”, “Trakai”, “Trakerne”, “Trákie”, “Trakien”, “Trakujo”, “Trakya Bölgesi”, “Traqui”, “Тракийска низина”, “თრაკე”, “თრაკეა”, “תרקיה”, “تراسی ها”, “تراسیها”, “تراقية”, “تراقیا”, “تراکییا”, “رومیلی”, “رومیلیا”, “থ্রাকে”, “เธรเซีย”, “บริเวณเธรซ”, “ภูมิภาคเธรซ”, “트라케”, “트라크야”, “트라키”, “트라키아 속주”, “トラーキア”, “トラキア地方”, “札果拉”, “特剌客亚”, “特剌客亚地区”, and “色雷西亚”
Thrace
- Category: ancient civilization
- Location: Balkans, Europe
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Latitude of center
42° north
Longitude of center
26° east
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Thrace” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Thracië”
- Afrikaans: “Thrakië”
- Albanian: “Thraka”
- Albanian: “Trakia”
- Amharic: “ጥራክያ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θρᾴκη”
- Arabic: “تراقيا”
- Aragonese: “Tracia”
- Armenian: “Թրակիա”
- Asturian: “Tracia”
- Azerbaijani: “Frakiya”
- Azerbaijani: “Trakiya”
- Bashkir: “Фракия”
- Basque: “Trazia”
- Belarusian: “Тракія”
- Belarusian: “Фракія”
- Bengali: “থ্রেস”
- Bosnian: “Trakija”
- Breton: “Trakia”
- Bulgarian: “Тракия”
- Catalan: “Tràcia”
- Central Kurdish: “تراکیا”
- Chinese: “色雷斯”
- Chuvash: “Фраки”
- Crimean Tatar: “Trakiya”
- Croatian: “Tracija”
- Czech: “Thrákie”
- Danish: “Thrakien”
- Dimli (individual language): “Trakya”
- Dutch: “Thracië”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تراقيا”
- Esperanto: “Trakio”
- Estonian: “Traakia”
- Finnish: “Traakia”
- French: “Thrace”
- Galician: “Tracia”
- Georgian: “თრაკია”
- German: “Thrakien”
- Greek: “Θράκη”
- Hebrew: “תראקיה”
- Hindi: “त्राकया”
- Hungarian: “Trákia”
- Icelandic: “Þrakía”
- Ido: “Trakia”
- Indonesian: “Trakia”
- Interlingua: “Thracia”
- Irish: “An Tráicia”
- Italian: “Tracia”
- Japanese: “トラキア”
- Javanese: “Trakia”
- Kazakh: “Фракия”
- Kirghiz: “Фракия”
- Korean: “트라키아”
- Korean: “트라키야”
- Kurdish: “Trakya”
- Latin: “Thracia”
- Latvian: “Trāķija”
- Limburgan: “Thracië”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Tracia”
- Lithuanian: “Trakija”
- Lombard: “Tracia”
- Macedonian: “Тракија”
- Malagasy: “Traky”
- Malay: “Thrace”
- Malay: “Thrake”
- Marathi: “त्राक्या”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thracia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Trakia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thrakia”
- Norwegian: “Trakia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tràcia”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tracia”
- Ossetian: “Фраки”
- Persian: “تراکیه”
- Polish: “Tracja”
- Pontic: “Θράκη”
- Portuguese: “Trácia”
- Romanian: “Tracia”
- Russian: “Фракия”
- Santali: “ᱛᱷᱨᱟᱥ”
- Sardinian: “Tràchia”
- Serbian: “Тракија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Trakija”
- Sicilian: “Tracia”
- Slovak: “Trácia”
- Slovenian: “Trakija”
- South Azerbaijani: “تراکیا”
- Spanish: “Tracia”
- Swahili: “Thrakia”
- Swedish: “Thrakien”
- Swiss German: “D Regioon Thrakie”
- Swiss German: “Thrakien”
- Tagalog: “Tracia”
- Tamil: “திரேசு”
- Thai: “เธรซ”
- Turkish: “Trakya”
- Ukrainian: “Фракія”
- Urdu: “تھریس”
- Venetian: “Tràcia”
- Vietnamese: “Thracia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thracia”
- Welsh: “Thrace”
- Western Armenian: “Թրակիա”
- Western Frisian: “Traasje”
- Wu Chinese: “色雷斯”
- Yue Chinese: “色雷斯”
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