Thrace (bgr)

Thrace

Thrace ranks 5,460th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sursee, Panama City, Florida, and Stirling Castle. Memorable people born in Thrace include Marcian, Bonifacius, and John XIV of Constantinople. Memorable people who died in Thrace include Seleucus I Nicator, Aristagoras, and Procopius. Thrace has been the birth place of many politicians and military personnels and the death place of many politicians and military personnels. Thrace is located in Bulgaria.

Thrace is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe. Bounded by the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Aegean Sea to the south, and the Black Sea to the east, it comprises present-day southeastern Bulgaria, northeastern Greece, and the European part of Turkey, roughly the Roman Province of Thrace. Lands also inhabited by ancient Thracians extended in the north to modern-day Northern Bulgaria and Romania and to the west into Macedonia. Read more on Wikipedia