Who were the Thracians?
An ancient Indo European group, the Thracians lived mainly in what we now know as Bulgaria and the Balkan region (then known as race), but they also inhabited parts of modern-day European Turkey and the far north of Greece.
The Thracian people were divided into around 200 tribal groups until the fifth century BC, when a move to unify the tribes was made and the Odrysian Kingdom was formed. This comprised 40 tribes and 22 kingdoms, and existed until the first century AD.