The Thracian

Thrace and Thracians are the names given by the ancient Greeks to the territory and the people living on the region bordering the north Aegean.

The Proto-Thracian culture began to form around 3000 BC on the southeastern Balkan Peninsula when the Neolithic population was invaded by tribes of the Yamnaya culture from the Russian steppes.

Thrace population was chiefly an Early Bronze Age mix of the descendants of intrusive stockbreeding peoples and of survivors of the autochthonous of Chalcolithic culture that the newcomers had destroyed.

The Thracian culture developed into a warrior society headed by chieftains with religious leaders and practices similar to those of the Brahmins of India, the Magi of the Persians and the Druids of Ireland.

The Thracians perhaps were in the Balkans by the end of the second millennium BC. The Greek poet Homer of the ninth or eight century BC wrote about the Thracians as participates in the Trojan War. The Thracians who are mentioned by Homer were agricultural tribes.

During the establishment of the Odrysian kingdom in the 5th century, the Thracians were very advanced metalworkers, and many metal objects made of gold or silver, especially drinking vessels, are known from the tombs of local rules nobles.

Thrace came under Macedonian rule in 342 BC, but it remained a warring and archaic territory until it became a Roman province in 46 AD. From the seventh century Ad, it was divided between the Byzantium Empire and The Bulgaria kingdom eventually falling the Ottoman Turks in1453.
The Thracian