Thracia

Thracia or Thrace é o nome antigo dado à região sudeste dos Bálcãs, a terra habitada pelos Thracians. Thrace foi governada pelo Odrysian kingdom durante as eras Classical e Hellenistic, e brevemente pelo governante grego Diadochi Lysimachus, mas tornou-se um estado cliente da late Roman Republic e do early Roman Empire como o Sapaean kingdom. O Roman emperor Claudius anexou o kingdom como uma Roman province em 46 AD. Confines From the perspective of classical Greece, Thracia included the territory north of Thessaly, with no definite boundaries,<ref>{{cite book |first=Thomas |last=Swinburne Carr |title=The history and geography of Greece |publisher=Simpkin, Marshall & Company |year=1838 |page=56 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyandgeogr00carrgoog }}</ref> sometimes to the inclusion of Macedonia and Scythia Minor. Later, Thracia proper was understood to include the territory bordered by the Danube on the north, by the Black Sea on the east, by Macedonia in the south and by Illyria to the west, roughly equivalent with the territory of the Thracian kingdom as it stood during the 5th to 1st centuries BC. With the annexation of the Thracian kingdom by the Roman Empire, by order of emperor Claudius, in AD 46, Thracia (formally provincia Thracia "Thracian province", "eparchy of the Thracians") foi estabelecida como a Roman province. After the administrative reforms of the 3rd century, Thracia foi reduzida ao territory of the six small provinces of the Diocese of Thrace. Later still, the medieval Byzantine theme of Thracia contained only what today is Eastern Thrace. Under the Principate The Odrysian kingdom of Thrace tornou-se um Roman client kingdom c. 20 BC, while the Greek city-states on the Black Sea coast came under Roman control as civitates foederatae ("allied" cities with internal autonomy). After the death of the Thracian king Rhoemetalces III in 46 AD and an unsuccessful anti-Roman revolt, the kingdom foi anexado como a Roman province of Thracia.