| In Classical Antiquity, the Tyrrhenians and Thracians were known as pirates. |
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| The Thracians who had inhabited these lands before the invasion of Slavs and Bulgars were also incorporated into the new state. |
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| Thracians were an intergral part of the evolution of ancient Mediterranean civilisation. |
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| In ancient times, the Thracians shaped the granite rock into building blocks at the quarry. |
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| The Thracians, who are the first inhabitants of what is today Bulgaria, were known to have had numerous sheep flocks. |
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| The installation of Thracians saw in the area the development of a rich and advanced civilization. |
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| Half a century before Christ the Thracians occupied Hungary east of the Danube, while Hungary west of the Danube was the home of Celtic and Illyrian tribes. |
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| During the 12th and 11th centuries BCE, Thracians settled not only on the peninsular mainland and the Mediterranean islands, but also moved south-eastwards into Asia Minor. |
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| During the 1st millennium bce the Macedonian region was populated by a mixture of peoples Dacians, Thracians, Illyrians, Celts, and Greeks. |
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| Bulgaria is the country of Orpheus and Eurydice, the home of the Thracians and of Dionysus. |
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| Illyrian society, like that of the Thracians, was organized around tribal groups who often fought wars with one another and with outsiders. |
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| Certain details from their way of life, such as tattooing, also suggest that the Agathyrsi were Thracians. |
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| Since the very first detailed account by Herodotus, Getae are acknowledged as belonging to the Thracians. |
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| The Thracians were advanced in metalworking and in horsemanship. |
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| At the dawn of recorded history, two Indo-European peoples dominated the area: the Illyrians to the west and the Thracians to the east of the great historical divide defined by the Morava and Vardar river valleys. |
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| Dacia had been the home of a people closely related to the Thracians. |
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| The beginning of salt extraction at Ocna Sibiului is shrouded in uncertainty but what is certain is the fact that the Scythians and the Greeks were doing trade with the salt extracted by the Thracians and the Dacians. |
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| Since there is no trace of a violent destruction of this local habitat, it seems that Greeks and Thracians cohabited on the site, probably for about one century. |
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| When with its demographic policy, it comprised a whole of concordant measures: encouragement with the marriage, penalization of exhibition new-born, the transplantation of Thracians in certain part of the kingdom. |
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| Thus, in 357 also, Thasians had believed to be able to base a new city close to their money mines on the continent, causing a reaction of Thracians. |
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| Still, they are distinguished from the other Thracians by particularities of religion and custom. |
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| Despite this, they are distinguished from other Thracians by particularities of religion and custom. |
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| The Agathyrsi were completely denationalized at the time of Herodotus and absorbed by the native Thracians. |
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| Thracians in Moesia and Dacia were Romanized, while those within the Byzantine empire were their Hellenized descendants that had mingled with the Greeks. |
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| The kingdom of Burebista extended south of the Danube, in what is today Bulgaria, and the Greeks believed their king was the greatest of all Thracians. |
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| In other respects their customs were close to those of the Thracians. |
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| They consisted of various Indo European tribes such as Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, Huns, Avars and Thracians most of which were influenced by the rich Persian culture. |
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| Throughout history many other ethnic groups with their own languages lived in the area, among them Thracians, Illyrians, Romans, Celts and various Germanic tribes. |
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