What on Earth Happened to the Thracians?

What on Earth happened to the Thracians? The Thracians were one of the earliest Indo-European groups to settle in Southeastern Europe and was located at the crossroads of multiple civilizations and as such has had a very tumultuous and dynamic history of the millennia, frequently swapping hands between many powerful empires in history. Today, the region known as Thrace in the corner of the European continent has a very different cultural, linguistic, political, ethnic, genetic and religious makeup than it did in the past. In the past 100 years, the makeup of Thrace and each region of Thrace, including Eastern Thrace in Turkey, Western Thrace in Greece and Northern Thrace in Bulgaria has undergone a dramatic and unforeseen transformation as one of the most unique and diverse regions of Europe. The people of Thrace today have connections to nearly every corner of the Eurasian landmass and beyond, which we will discuss in today’s video to see just who the people of Thrace are, how they got there, as well as their influences and evolution, starting from the ancient Thracians and Greeks colonies of antiquity to the Romans, Ottomans and others. Thanks for watching!

[nadronnoco]

>Open video on Thrace
>Look inside
>Turkey

[JulienDLauriers]

So happy you started posting again, your videos are always fascinating

[wg]

In Turkey, persons from the provinces of Edirne, Tekirdağ, and Kırklareli, basically the European part of Turkey, except İstanbul are called #Trakyalı Thracian.

[AltaicGigachad]

One of the main reasons for the successful incursions of the Slavs south of the Danube was the fact that the local population, i.e. the Thracians, were not inclined to oppose the invaders. Moreover, having been politically and culturally oppressed by the foreign administration for many generations, burdened with taxes and levies, the Thracians tended in some cases to support the newcomers from the north. The Byzantine historian Procopius who witnessed the events testifies
that many of the inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula chose to abandon their homes and seek asylum with the barbarians. This was not accidental as the majority of Thracians were in a rather unenviableisituation in their native lands, being for the most part coloni or slaves. At the same time the Slavs were still at the stage of communaisocial system and slavery existed in milder forms.

[pitakotopoulos]

Im a greek thracian from the tribe of Marides!

[Donkeypapuas]

Why don't you quote the Herodotes words? "The thracians was the most large people after the hindus" The Dacians was part of thracians tribes. The most of them can be found in actual Romanians/Aroumanians. But they constitued also the substrat for Bulgarians or Serbs.

[georgios_]

The Thracians were Hellenized, linguistically and culturally, starting already partially when the first Greek colonies were set up around 700BC, sped up by the Macedonian conquests, and by 200AD they were all Greek speaking. Some of them migrated to the neighboring region of Bithynia.

[CountRoland]

Would love to see a "What on Earth Happened to the Franks?" video, personally.

[georgios_]

0:54 there is a big mistake in this chart. Ancient Macedonian was not an isolate but a Doric dialect of the Hellenic language

[Khaiman]

Ever thought of doing a version of this with food? Like how the tomato was cultivated and then spread throughout the world then how we now think of tomato sauce as Italian food lol.

[acaydia]

I’ve been deep diving into Thrace.
Vinca Culture or Danube Civilization which is like 7k years old, blew my mind.
All very fascinating.

[BigBandelero]

Your content is solid next-level material. So informative. I’m so glad you’re back.

[ivangeorgiev]

Thank you for the extensive video! Rarely do I hear someone speak about the Thracians and Thrace as a whole. Kind regards from Haskovo, one of the cities in Thrace!

[somemeansfish]

The video was 4 minutes of talking about the thracians followed by a 10 minute Turkish history lesson

[DaFooling]

My family were Greeks from northern Thrake, we have always called ourselves Thrake Rum, probably the old self identification in the area.

[michaelodwyer]

so glad to see you're back dude, I was worried after you made that comment about having a failing liver then disappearing from youtube for multiple years

[georgios_]

10:12 Imbros was not majority Greek, it was totality Greek, not a single Turk lived on the island before 1923. And Turkey didn't capture it during wartime, it was ceded according to the Lausanne Treaty

[Demographiaanthropology]

Interesting video though I wish you addressed the old Thracians a bit more

[jeliazkodimitrov]

History of the Thracians
Kingdom of Thrace (460 BC–46 AD)
*
Thracian Monarchs Family Tree | Ter I to Remetalk ІІІ
Kingdom of Thrace (460 BC – 46 AD)
List of the Thracian Kings:
1. Теr І, Odrysian dynasty/Одриска династия (460-445 BC)
2. Sparadok (445-431 BC)
3. Sitalk (431–424 BC)
4. Sevt І (424–410 BC)
5. Amadok І (410–390 BC)
6. Hebrizelm (390-384 BC)
7. Koto І (384–360 BC)
8. Amadok ІІ (360-351 BC)
9. Теr ІІ (351–342 BC)
10. Sevt ІІІ* (342–300 BC)
11. Koto ІІ (300-280 BC)
12. Raigo (also incorrect: Raygo), Thracian: Райго (280-270 BC)
13. Koto ІІІ (270–240 BC)
14. Reskupor І (240-215 BC)
15. Sevt ІV (215-190 BC)
16. Теr III (190-183 BC)
17. Теr ІV (183-172 BC)
18. Теr V (172-148 BC)
19. Теr VІ (148-100 BC)
20. Koto IV (100-87 BC)
21. Sadala І (87-79 BC)
22. Koto V (79-57 BC)
23. Koto VI, Sapaean dynasty/Сапейска династия (57-48 BC)
24. Reskupor II (48-42 BC)
25. Koto VII (42-31 BC)
26. Sadala ІІ (31 BC)
27. Koto VIII (31-18 BC)
28. Reskupor III (18-12 BC)
29. Remetalk І (12 BC-12 AC)
30. Koto IX (12-19 AC)
31. Remetalk ІІ (19-38 AC)
32. Remetalk ІІІ (38-46 AC)

*Sevt ІІ, son of Maesad, local ruler in Thrace ("in southern districts") 405–391 BC.

[Michael_the_Drunkard]

7:11 Thrace was not conquered by Ataturk, it was surrendered to Turkey from Greece by the British.