Built over a Thracian settlement and a Byzantine fortress, Tsarevets turned into an unapproachable fortress. |
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Whether the Albanian language stems from Illyrian or Thracian, both, or neither is a matter of contention. |
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Sent to pacify Ionia, after several Ionian repulses, he dared not return to Susa and so departed for his Thracian project. |
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The Thracian site of Halka Bunar has been sampled for archaeomagnetic analysis. |
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Apollo, having watched all this, rouses a Trojan, who begins to defend the Thracian camp. |
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Both towns were founded by Thracian tribes and later settled by the ancient Greeks. |
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At the museum in the old house in Peshtera we were shown two Thracian sarcophagi dating back 5,000 years. |
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Some consider that the leader and military commander Spartacus was a Thracian. |
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A significant number of the monuments of Thracian toreutics have been found at burial sites. |
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The monuments of the Thracian toreutics present the image of the king as a horseman. |
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He said that this proved that the temple was actually a burial site of a Thracian king, who was deified upon his death. |
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Through its Thracian heritage, Bulgaria lays claim to being the birthplace of wine-making. |
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Antisthenes was born in Athens about 440 BCE. of a Phrygian or Thracian mother, and thus was only a half citizen. |
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In 357 bc Chares regained for Athens the Thracian Chersonese from the Thracian king Cersobleptes. |
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Going down to the underworld alive was something Thracian shamans just did, as natural as singing along the forest paths. |
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The Thracian question is also just as important as relations between Turkey and the other neighbouring countries. |
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Bulgarian songs offer a marvellous combination between Thracian archaism, Byzantine liturgy, popular songs, sagas and laments. |
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On this 13-day tour you'll see imperial eagles, Egyptian vultures and Dalmatian pelicans, plus frescoed monasteries, Roman ruins and the monuments of the Thracian horsemen. |
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The tholos has a narrow corridor and a round burial chamber, both decorated with murals representing Thracian burial rituals and culture. |
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Orpheus, Ares, and Boreas are all considered to be Thracian. |
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Last week, Bulgarian archaeologists unearthed an unusual 13th-century grave in an ancient city named Thracian. |
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From the village's central square you may admire the vineyards and the fields of olive groves reaching out the Thracian Sea. |
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Thracian gold treasures are recognized as the most beautiful and magnificent in the world. |
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According to the archeological researches there is a Thracian sanctuary situated 1 km to the west of the present village. |
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The Dacians are generally considered to have been Thracian speakers, representing a cultural continuity from earlier Iron Age communities. |
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The Bastarnae provided the casus belli by crossing the Haemus and attacking the Dentheletae, a Thracian tribe who were Roman allies. |
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Solta, who says that Thracian and Dacian are very closely related languages. |
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News of Philip's death roused many states into revolt, including Thebes, Athens, Thessaly, and the Thracian tribes north of Macedon. |
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Histiaeus received Thracian territory as a reward. |
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Many scholars have concluded from classical sources that a second wave of Cimmerians entered Anatolia from the west and that these western Cimmerians were reinforced by Thracian invaders. |
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Thus, the Nestinari still perform their ritual dance on glowing embers, a dance which originated in an ancient Thracian rite in honour of the Goddess Mother and her son, the Sun God. |
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Votive tablets of the Thracian God, horse-rider, are found here as well as iron axes, a bronze bell, and coins from the time of Konstantin I The Great. |
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All major naval vessels had been withdrawn, and only one destroyer, HMS Thracian, several gunboats and a flotilla of motor torpedo boats remained. |
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This means that another Thracian settlement existed somewhere around them. |
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The city's remains, which date mostly from the Hellenistic period, include the acropolis, a temple of Apollo, an agora and a wall from the Thracian fortifications. |
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Terra Tangra means the land of Tangra, sole god of the proto-Bulgarians who settled in the Thracian Valley and in the 7th century founded the first Bulgarian state there. |
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Relations have also been proposed between Phrygian and Greek, and between Thracian and Armenian. |
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One of the elements that came from the Roman and Thracian celebrations concerned wolves. |
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From classical antiquity through the Middle Ages, the Balkan Mountains were called by the local Thracian name Haemus. |
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The majority view among modern scholars is that the Carpi were a North Thracian tribe and a subgroup of the Dacians. |
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This North Thracian population was dominated by strong Celtic influences, or had simply absorbed Celtic ethnic components. |
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Some historians and linguists consider Dacian language to be a dialect of or the same language as Thracian. |
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The vocalism and consonantism differentiate the Dacian and Thracian languages. |
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Greek stringed instruments included the Chelys Lyre, Kithara, Barbitos, Phorminx, Thracian Kithara, and Harp. |
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A representative example of a Thracian woman slaying Orpheus with a knife is the stamnos now in Zurich, Univ. |
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Besides Zalmoxis, the Dacians believed in other deities, such as Gebeleizis, the god of storm and lightning, possibly related to the Thracian god Zibelthiurdos. |
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At the time, Bulgaria was fighting at the main Thracian Front. |
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According to Greek mythology, the Thracian king Haemus was turned into a mountain by Zeus as a punishment and the mountain has remained with his name. |
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Albanian is often seen as the descendant of Illyrian, although this hypothesis has been challenged by some linguists, who maintain that it derives from Dacian or Thracian. |
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During Philip's absence, the Thracian Maedi revolted against Macedonia. |
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There is no doubt that the Thracian language was related to the Dacian language which was spoken in what is today Romania, before some of that area was occupied by the Romans. |
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Prior to the Roman conquest of Dacia, the territories between the Danube and Dniester rivers were inhabited by various Thracian peoples, including the Dacians and the Getae. |
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