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Thrace is a region in the southeast , bordered by the , the Sea of Marmara, the , the region of Macedonia, and the .
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  • Type: historical region
  • Description: geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe
  • Also known as: “Ancient Thrace and Ancient Thracians”

Thrace

Latitude of center
42° north
Longitude of center
26° east
Wiki­data ID
Q41741
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Thrace” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Thracië”
  • Afrikaans: “Thrake”
  • Afrikaans: “Thrakië”
  • Afrikaans: “Thrasië”
  • Albanian: “Thraka”
  • Albanian: “Trakia”
  • Amharic: “ጥራክያ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θρᾴκη”
  • Arabic: “تراقيا”
  • Arabic: “تراقية”
  • Arabic: “ثراقية”
  • Aragonese: “Trachi”
  • Aragonese: “Tracia”
  • Aragonese: “Traqui”
  • Aragonese: “Trazia”
  • Armenian: “Թրակիա”
  • Asturian: “Tracia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Frakiya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Trakiya”
  • Bashkir: “Фракия”
  • Basque: “Trazia”
  • Belarusian: “Тракія”
  • Belarusian: “Фракія”
  • Bengali: “থ্রাকে”
  • Bengali: “থ্রেস”
  • Bosnian: “Tračka”
  • Bosnian: “Trakija”
  • Breton: “Thracia”
  • Breton: “Trakia”
  • Bulgarian: “Тракийска низина”
  • Bulgarian: “Тракия”
  • Catalan: “Província de Tràcia”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Tràcia”
  • Catalan: “Tràcia”
  • Central Kurdish: “تراکیا”
  • Chinese: “Thracia”
  • Chinese: “札果拉”
  • Chinese: “特剌客亚”
  • Chinese: “特剌客亚地区”
  • Chinese: “色雷斯”
  • Chinese: “色雷西亚”
  • Chuvash: “Фраки”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Trakiya”
  • Croatian: “Tracija”
  • Croatian: “Tračka”
  • Czech: “Thrácie”
  • Czech: “Thrákie”
  • Czech: “Tracie”
  • Czech: “Trácie”
  • Czech: “Trákie”
  • Danish: “Thrakien”
  • Danish: “Thrakisk”
  • Danish: “Trakerne”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Trakya”
  • Dutch: “Thracie”
  • Dutch: “Thracië”
  • Dutch: “Thracisch rijk”
  • Dutch: “Thracische”
  • Dutch: “Thrake”
  • Dutch: “Thráke”
  • Dutch: “Trakya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تراقيا”
  • Esperanto: “Thracia”
  • Esperanto: “Tracio”
  • Esperanto: “Trakio”
  • Esperanto: “Trakujo”
  • Estonian: “Traakia”
  • Finnish: “Thracia”
  • Finnish: “Traakia”
  • French: “Thrace”
  • Galician: “Tracia”
  • Georgian: “თრაკე”
  • Georgian: “თრაკეა”
  • Georgian: “თრაკია”
  • German: “Thrakien”
  • Greek: “Θράκη”
  • Hebrew: “תראקיה”
  • Hebrew: “תרקיה”
  • Hindi: “त्राकया”
  • Hungarian: “Thracia”
  • Hungarian: “Thrakia”
  • Hungarian: “Thrákia”
  • Hungarian: “Trákia”
  • Icelandic: “Þrakía”
  • Ido: “Trakia”
  • Indonesian: “Thrace”
  • Indonesian: “Thracia”
  • Indonesian: “Thrakia”
  • Indonesian: “Thrasia”
  • Indonesian: “Trakia”
  • Indonesian: “Trakya”
  • Interlingua: “Thracia”
  • Irish: “An Tráicia”
  • Italian: “Thracia”
  • Italian: “Tracia”
  • Japanese: “トラーキア”
  • Japanese: “トラキア”
  • Japanese: “トラキア地方”
  • Javanese: “Trakia”
  • Kazakh: “Фракия”
  • Kirghiz: “Фракия”
  • Korean: “트라케”
  • Korean: “트라크야”
  • Korean: “트라키”
  • Korean: “트라키아 속주”
  • Korean: “트라키아”
  • Korean: “트라키야”
  • Kurdish: “Trakya”
  • Latin: “Thrace”
  • 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: “Thracia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thrakar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thraker”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thraki”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thráki”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Trakia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den thrakiske halvøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thrakia”
  • Norwegian: “Trakia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tràcia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tracia”
  • Ossetian: “Фраки”
  • Persian: “تراسی ها”
  • Persian: “تراسی‌ها”
  • Persian: “تراکیه”
  • Persian: “تراکییا”
  • Polish: “Tracja”
  • Pontic: “Θράκη”
  • Portuguese: “Tracia ocidental”
  • Portuguese: “Trácia”
  • Romanian: “Tracia”
  • Russian: “Фракия”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱷᱨᱟᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Tràchia”
  • Serbian: “Тракија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Trakija”
  • Sicilian: “Tracia”
  • Slovak: “Trácia”
  • Slovenian: “Tracija”
  • Slovenian: “Trakija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تراکیا”
  • Spanish: “Tracia”
  • Spanish: “Traco”
  • Swahili: “Thrakia”
  • Swedish: “Thrace”
  • Swedish: “Thracia”
  • Swedish: “Thracien”
  • Swedish: “Thrakien”
  • Swedish: “Tracien”
  • Swedish: “Trakien”
  • Swiss German: “D Regioon Thrakie”
  • Tamil: “திரேசு”
  • Thai: “Thrace”
  • Thai: “Thracia”
  • Thai: “เธรซ”
  • Thai: “เธรเซีย”
  • Thai: “บริเวณเธรซ”
  • Thai: “ภูมิภาคเธรซ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Thrakien”
  • Turkish: “Thrace”
  • Turkish: “Trakai”
  • Turkish: “Trakya Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Trakya”
  • Ukrainian: “Тракія”
  • Ukrainian: “Фракія”
  • Urdu: “تراقیا”
  • Urdu: “تھریس”
  • Urdu: “رومیلی”
  • Urdu: “رومیلیا”
  • Venetian: “Tràcia”
  • Vietnamese: “Thrace”
  • Vietnamese: “Thracia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Thracia”
  • Welsh: “Thrace”
  • Welsh: “Thraciaid”
  • Western Armenian: “Թրակիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Thraasje”
  • Western Frisian: “Traasje”
  • Wu Chinese: “色雷斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “色雷斯”

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