Thrace (bgr)

Thrace

Thrace ranks 3,096th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Weferlingen, Gimhae, and Rueil-Malmaison. Memorable people born in Thrace include Marcian, Tiberius II Constantine, and Bonifacius. Memorable people who died in Thrace include Procopius, Iphicrates, and Conon de Béthune. Thrace has been the birth place of many politicians, and military personnels and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels. Thrace is located in Bulgaria.

Thrace is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe roughly corresponding to the province of Thrace in the Roman Empire. Bounded by the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Aegean Sea to the south, and the Black Sea to the east, it comprises present-day southeastern Bulgaria, northeastern Greece, and the European part of Turkey. Lands also inhabited by ancient Thracians extended in the north to modern-day Northern Bulgaria and Romania and to the west into Macedonia. Read more on Wikipedia