Antik kavim Traklardan adını alan bir toprak parçası...
Tarihi Trakya denen toprakların dörtte biri Türkiye sınırları içinde, dörtte biri Yunanistan ve dörtte ikisi ise Bulgaristan... Tarihi Trakya'nın sadece çeyrek dilimine sahibiz. Günümüzde diğer çeyrek dilimi Batı Trakya olarak adlandırılırken Bulgaristan sınırlarında kalan topraklar bir zamanlar Doğu Rumeli olarak adlandırılmış. Üç Trakya var...
Türkiye Trakya'sı
Yunanistan Trakya'sı ve
Bulgaristan Trakya'sı...
Trakya deyince ne anlamamız gerekiyor? Yüzde doksan oranında Meriç ve Ergene Nehirlerinin içinde aktığı havzayı... Taşöz adası dikey ekseniyle - Varna şehri yatay eksenlerinin kesişim alanında kalan 85 bin kilometre karelik büyük toprak toprak parçası.... Tarih boyunca sınırları genişlemiş, daralmış... Bu yüzden kesin coğrafi sınırlar belirlemek zor. Kaba ölçüleriyle tanımlamak her zaman daha iyi.
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1938 yılında General Dirik Trakya'nın kalkınma durumuyla ilgili Cumhuriyet gazetesine genel bir özet veriyor. O dönem Trakya'sı hakkında bilgi edinmek için önemli bir belge...
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After the invasion of the Sarmatians in 2 thousand BC. e., numerous tribes of cleaved (Scythian-agricultural) migrated to Thrace. Strabo reports: " Many people from Lesser Scythia crossed through Tiras and Istres and settled in that country (Thrace). A significant part of Thrace in the Balkans was called Lesser Scythia.».
“ Thrace, on the one hand, begins from the coast of Pontus, where the river Istres (Danube) flows into it. In this part, the most beautiful cities: Istropol, Tomi, Kallatia (formerly called Kerbatira) founded by the milletians. Here lay Heracles and Bison, swallowed up by the open earth. Now Dionisopol remains, formerly called Krun. Here the river Zira flows. Scythians called the plowmen occupied this whole area. They had the cities: Aphrodisiad, Libist, Sieger, Rokoba, Eumenia, Parfonopol and Gerania».
In his 5th book, Herodotus writes: “ The Thracians worship only three gods: Ares, Dionysus and Artemis. And their kings (unlike the rest of the people) more than all gods venerate Hermes and swear only to them. According to them, they themselves came from Hermes. The funeral rites of the wealthy Thracians are as follows. The body of the deceased is exposed for three days. At the same time, they sacrifice all kinds of sacrificial animals and, after funeral screams, they make a trident. Then the body is burned or otherwise interred by pouring mou
The Thracians had fox hats on their heads. On the body they wore tunics, and on top - variegated burnos. They had reindeer-skin coils on their legs and knees. They were armed with darts, slings and small daggers.
The first Thracian state in the Balkans took shape in the 5th century BC - the Odrisian state. The king of the Thracian tribe of the Odrisians Tiras united all the Thracian tribes that were not homogeneous in ethnic composition
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