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In Greek mythology, King Diomedes of Thrace ( Ancient Greek: Διομήδης) was the son of Ares and Cyrene. [2] He lived on the shores of the Black Sea ruling the warlike tribe of Bistones. [3] [4] He is known for his man-eating horses, [5] which Heracles stole in order to complete the eighth of his Twelve Labours, slaying Diomedes in the ...
In the 1st century AD Thrace was conquered by the Romans and the settlement eventually became a Roman city and one of the three most important towns in the province. It was first called Augusta. The region centred on the city was declared an imperial domain at least in 135–36 AD under Hadrian , from an inscription discovered.
Hawks of Thrace ( HoT) is a possibly defunct, anti- Turkish, pro- Kurdish independence Greek terrorist organization based in Thrace, Greece. [1] The HoT attacked the Turkish consulate-general in Komotini on 8 February 1999 in support of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan. [1] This was the only attack this group has ever made.
East Thrace or Eastren Thrace ( Turkis: Doğu Trakya or semply Trakya; Greek: Ανατολική Θράκη, Anatoliki Thraki; Bulgarie: Източна Тракия, Iztochna Trakiya ), kent as Turkis Thrace or European Turkey forby, is the pairt o Turkey that is geografically pairt o Sootheast Europe. It accoonts for 3% o Turkey's laund aurie ...
Peirous, a Thracian war leader [5] killed by Thoas the Aetolian. Rhesus of Thrace, died in the Trojan war [6] Cisseus, father of Theano, the wife of Antenor. Diomedes of Thrace, Giant that ruled over the Bistones. Lycurgus, of the Edoni. Oeagrus, father of Orpheus and Linus. Orpheus [7] of the Cicones.
The 1934 Thrace pogroms ( Turkish: Trakya Olayları, "Thrace incidents" or "Thrace events", Ladino: Furtuna/La Furtuna, "Storm") [1] [2] were a series of violent attacks against Jewish citizens of Turkey in June and July 1934 in the Thrace region of Turkey. One of the main crucial factors behind the events was the Resettlement Law passed by the ...
Western Thrace, or Greek Thrace, is a geographical region of Greece. Administratively, it is part of the Periphery of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. It is located in the northeastern part of Greece and borders the region of Macedonia in the west, the River Evros in the east, the Aegean Sea in the south, and the Rhodope Mountains in the north ...
