Western Thrace
Western Thrace is a region in Greece. In Greek, it is referred simply as Thrace, as there is no other Thrace in Greece. Eastern Thrace is part of Turkey.Photo: DocWoKav, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Komotini and Alexandroupolis.
Komotini
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Komotini is a city in the region of East Macedonia and Thrace, northeastern Greece and its capital. It is also the capital of the Rhodope. It was the administrative centre of the Rhodope-Evros super-prefecture until its abolition in 2010, by the Kallikratis Plan.
Alexandroupolis
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Alexandroupolis is a city in Western Thrace, northeast of Greece.
Xanthi
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Xanthi is in Western Thrace. It's the capital city of Xanthi Prefecture.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Didymoteicho and Stavroupoli.
Didymoteicho
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Didymoteicho is a city in western Thrace with about 8,500 inhabitants.
Stavroupoli
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Stavroupoli is a village and a former municipality in the Xanthi regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Xanthi, of which it is a municipal unit.
Pythion
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Pythion is a small border village in Western Thrace, Greece, a few kilometers north of the city of Alexandroupolis and the Kipi - Ipsala border crossing between Greece and Turkey.
Vistonida
The area around Lake Vistonida in Western Thrace in Greece includes the site of Anastasiopolis or Peritheorion an ancient city on the Via Egnatia. This article covers roughly the area of the municipalities Abdera and Iasmos and the old municipality of Vistonida.Maroneia
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Maroneia is a village of 6,400 people in Western Thrace. Maroneia was one of the wealthiest towns of ancient world along with nearby Abdera and Mesimvria. Nowadays it's a village appreciated for its surrounding beaches.
Western Thrace
- Type: region
- Description: geographic region of Greece
- Also known as: “Thrace”
- Categories: historical region and traditional geographic divisions of Greece
- Location: Northern Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude of center
41.23° or 41° 13′ 48″ northLongitude of center
25.58° or 25° 34′ 48″ eastWikidata ID
Q1192701
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Western Thrace” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تراقيا الغربية”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան Թրակիա”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Frakiya”
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko Trazia”
- Belarusian: “Заходняя Фракія”
- Bulgarian: “Беломорието”
- Bulgarian: “Беломорска Тракия”
- Bulgarian: “Западна Тракия”
- Bulgarian: “Тракия”
- Catalan: “Tràcia occidental”
- Chinese: “西色雷斯”
- Croatian: “Zapadna Tracija”
- Czech: “Západní Thrákie”
- Dutch: “West-Thracië”
- Estonian: “Traakia”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Traakia”
- French: “Thrace égéenne”
- French: “Thrace grecque”
- French: “Thrace occidentale”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთი თრაკია”
- German: “Thrakien”
- German: “Westthrakien”
- German: “Westthrazien”
- Greek: “Θράκη”
- Hebrew: “תראקיה המערבית”
- Hebrew: “תראקיה”
- Icelandic: “Vestur-Þrakía”
- Ido: “Westal Trakia”
- Indonesian: “Thrace Barat”
- Indonesian: “Trakia Barat”
- Italian: “Tracia occidentale”
- Japanese: “西トラキア”
- Kirghiz: “Батыш Фракия”
- Korean: “서부 트라키”
- Korean: “서부 트라키아”
- Korean: “서트라키”
- Korean: “서트라키아”
- Latin: “Thrace”
- Lithuanian: “Graikijos Trakija”
- Lithuanian: “Trakija”
- Lithuanian: “Trakijos regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Trakija”
- Macedonian: “Западна Тракија”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thrakia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gresk Thráki”
- Persian: “تراکیه غربی”
- Portuguese: “Trácia Ocidental”
- Romanian: “Tracia de Vest”
- Russian: “Западная Фракия”
- Sardinian: “Tràchia otzidentale”
- Serbian: “Западна Тракија”
- Slovak: “Egejská Trácia”
- Slovak: “Grécka Trácia”
- Slovak: “Západná Trácia”
- Slovenian: “Trakija”
- Spanish: “Tracia griega”
- Spanish: “Tracia occidental”
- Spanish: “Tracia Occidental”
- Turkish: “Batı Trakya”
- Turkish: “Yunanistan Trakyası”
- Ukrainian: “Західна Фракія”
- Urdu: “مغربی تھریس”
- Uzbek: “G’arbiy Frakiya”
- Venetian: “Tràcia osidentałe”
- Western Panjabi: “تھریس”
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