Thrace (disambiguation)

The modern boundaries of Thrace in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey.

Thrace is a geographic region in the eastern Balkans, today divided between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey.

Historical entities

• Thrace (satrapy), an Achaemenid Persian province
• Kingdom of Thrace, which ruled much of Thrace in Antiquity, formed by the Odrysians
• Thracia (Roman province), a Roman imperial province
• Diocese of Thrace, a late Roman/early Byzantine province
• Thrace (theme), a middle and late Byzantine province
• Thrace Prefecture, Greece

Geographical/political divisions

• Northern Thrace, the Bulgarian part of Thrace
• Western Thrace, the Greek part of Thrace, part of the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery
• Eastern Thrace, the Turkish part of Thrace, also known as European Turkey

Other uses

• Thrace (mythology), the region's eponymous heroine in Greek mythology
• Kara Thrace, a character in the TV series Battlestar Galactica

See also

• Thracian (disambiguation)