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1.The favorite land of Mars was, according to Home, the rough, northerly Thrace.
2.a city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman emperor Hadrian.
3.Egyptian initiation rites, Thracian orphic mysteries and other ritual and cult practices were amongst the many that were adopted readily.
4.A city of northern Bulgaria northeast of Sofia. Settled by Thracians, it was ruled by Turkey from the15th to the19th century. Population,144, 000.
5.An ancient city of Persia northeast of modern Shiraz in southwest Iran. It was the ceremonial capital of Darius I and his successors. Its ruins include the palaces of Darius and Xerxes and a citadel that contained the treasury looted by Alexander the Great.
6.The Balkan Wars were two wars in South-eastern Europe in 1912-1913 in the course of which the Balkan League (Bulgaria, Montenegro, Greece, and Serbia) first conquered Ottoman-held Macedonia, Albania and most of Thrace and then fell out over the division of the spoils.
7.An ancient city of Thrace on the site of present-day Istanbul, Turkey. It was founded by the Greeks in the seventh century b.c. and taken by the Romans in a.d.196. Constantine I ordered the rebuilding of the city in330 and renamed it Constantinople.
