Thracian in a sentence

Although several “Thracian” exercises take place in Bulgaria each year, the Tennessee National Guard is honored to initiate the newest exercise in the series, Thracian Sentry.

Recently discovered funeral mounds in Bulgaria suggest that Thracian kings did rule regions of Thrace with distinct Thracian national identity.

As well as the ampitheatre, the Thracian ruins of Eumolpias are another draw for visitors to the Plovdiv.

The Barn’s kitchen exclusively uses ingredients from the Thracian region, and they grow most of their own fruits and vegetables, particularly their honey, on the farm.

The Areopagites ruled that the 37-year-old mother should not be extradited to Iran while annulling the decision of the Thracian Council of Appeals which had ruled otherwise.

They were excavated from a brick grave in a large burial mound that experts think belonged to an aristocratic Thracian family.

According to Georgiev, the language spoken by the Getae should be classified as "Daco-Moesian" and regarded as quite distinct from Thracian.

Although a new theme—that of "Macedonia"—was subsequently created, it did not correspond to today's geographic territory, but one farther east (centred on Adrianople), carved out of the already existing Thracian and Helladic themes.

By the beginning of the 9th century, the theme of Macedonia, with its capital at Adrianople consisted not of Macedonian but of Thracian territories.

D. Dechev considers that Haemus (Αἷμος) is derived from a Thracian word *saimon, 'mountain ridge'. citation A third possibility is that "Haemus" ( Αἵμος main) derives from the Greek word "haema" ( αἵμα main) meaning 'blood'.

Evidence is still wanting for the Macedonian and Thracian coasts.

Google Books although this hypothesis has been challenged by some linguists, who maintain that it derives from Dacian or Thracian.

In 404 BC, the Athenians gathered their remaining ships at Aegospotami (near the Thracian Chersonese ).

It has for long being supposed on convincing linguistic and archeological grounds that this tribe was of Celtic origin" or mixed Thracian-Celtic origin.

London: Fitzroy and Dearborn, 1997: 147 This can be considered a translation or similar meaning of Axios, itself Thracian for 'not-shining' from PIE *n.

Provoked by the backstage deals between its former allies Serbia and Greece on allocation the spoils at the end of the First Balkan War, while it fights at the main Thracian Front, Bulgaria marks the beginning of Second Balkan War when attacked them.

Serdica's citizens of Thracian descent were referred to as Illyrians probably because it was at some time the capital of Eastern Illyria (Second Illyria). citation For future emperors Serdica was their residence form where they ruled Rome.

She identifies the central panel above the door of the Parthenon as the pre-battle sacrifice of the daughter of King Erechtheus, a sacrifice that ensured Athenian victory over Eumolpos and his Thracian army.

The first Roman gladiators were prisoners of war and were named according to their ethnic roots such as Samnite, Thracian, and the Gaul (Gallus).

The men then took concubines from the Thracian mainland opposite, and the spurned women, angry at Aphrodite, killed all the male inhabitants while they slept.