The Gold of the Thracians

... ANCIENT THRACE

The oldest population, known to have inhabited Bulgarian territories, whose name we know, were the Thracians. They are mentioned for the first time by the Ancient Greek poet Homer (8th c. B.C.). If we can trust his ,,Iliad", Thracian tribes took part in the Thracian War (c. 1250 B.C.) under the commandment of King Rezos. The name Thracian means ,,brave", ,,courageous" people. The Ancient Greeks used it for all tribes living to the north.
The Thracians were a numerous people divided into tribes - Getae, Dacians, Moesians, Triballi, Satri, Bessoi, Odrysai and others. They formed their ethnic community at the beginning of the Iron Age and it contained about 90 tribal groups.
Thracian lands were famous for their fertility. In the plains the Thracians grew corn, barley, wheat, rye, millet and other cereals. Following the ancient authors, they also prepared leavened bread. In Antiquity it was made of legumes turned sour or wheat flour mixed with grape juice and then dried in the sun.
The Thracians also grew fruit trees, practiced gardening and vine-growing, bred horses, sheep, goats and cattle. Vines were plentiful to the south.
Even Homer mentions that the Thracians traded in wine. In the ,,Odyssey" he writes that the wine offered by the priest of the Maron Kikons to Odyssey and his friends, was dark, sweet and richly flavoured.
From deep Antiquity the Thracians practiced ore-mining and metal processing. After the development of iron metallurgy in the 1st millennium B.C., they inhabited plains surrounded by mountains and hills, which were known for their fertile soil, good pastures and their proximity to water and to ore deposits. Such places, suitable for settlement, were the pre-Balkan plains and those of the Strandzha Mountain, the pans in the northern skirts of the Rhodopes and the valley of the Maritza River.
They recovered iron, copper, silver and gold. Minting of coins by various Thracian rulers stimulated the growth of trade, which, in addition to wine, also included cereals, meat, fish, hides and beeswax.

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...The first European civilization is that of the Thracians and pelazgi. Here in the Balkans invented the oldest script. Not accidentally Alkidamant determined Thracian Orpheus as the creator of the letters and the Thracian world. From all over Europe, first in Thrace appear organized agriculture and stockbreeding. Other nations behind millennia ... Also in Thrace and earliest processing of gold and iron, in Thrace oldest cities. Earth could easily be called the birthplace of the Prometheus....

Undoubtedly one of the greatest discoveries in the valley is the tomb mound Kosmatka. When this discovery is important not only because the tomb is among the largest in this rare neograbeni tombs and contains exceptionally rich grave goods, but due to the circumstances which define it as alleged last home precisely Seuthes III. The facility was revealed on 24 September 2004 by the Thracian mound studies expedition TEMP under the leadership of Georgi Kitov 1 km south of the town. Shipka and 12 km north of the town. Kazanlak ..
It was built in pre-accumulated for the purpose mound, probably at the end of V - the beginning of IV c. BC. BC, assumed that more than a century was used as a temple in which they are carried Orphic practices. It consists of a dromos and three cameras with different plan - rectangular, with a dome and rectangular, built in a monolithic block.

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.."Wild and unbridled Thracian cavalry and infantry stopped the attack of a superior Persian cavalry repeatedly ..." - "The Thracians, 700BC-AD46, Chr. Webber, p.11.

..This nation Romans introduced the battlefield in the middle of the second century BC. Authors such as Livy and Plutarch share their impressions - "Getting occurred Thracians, who described them as Nazika were most impressive - high, large men dressed in black cloaks, under which shone shining armor. On their shoulders they were leaning massive iron battle ax "- Plut. Aem.Paul. 18.3.
.."Thracians, like wild beasts released from a cell with a deafening roar rushed against Italic cavalry so rapidly that even tempered in battles Italians were in great confusion and fear." - Liv. 42.59.

..Justinian the Great - "This is important and everyone he known that if someone mentions the name Traci as soon as the words fly from his lips, the listener realizes noble qualities of this people - incredible masculinity and fearful militancy tested to vsyakakav way to the battlefields. Notices These properties are typical only for them, they have them at birth in blood. ''
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Yes,proof of this is the Thracian Spartacus-man rebelled against an empire.
For more than two millennia the most prominent symbol of freedom of the human remains from the Thracian Spartacus. Fought with the Romans, he was captured and sold into slavery. Due to its qualities of a warrior is taken in the gladiatorial school of Lentulus Baptiste in Capua. In 73 BC brave Thracian organizational escape of 78 gladiators, which starts at the famous rebellion in world history. Against tax in the crater of the volcano Vesuvius (then considered extinct) rebels sent Three thousand squad Pretoria Claudius Glaber. With ropes, plaited from wild vines gladiators descend on tristametrov steep slope, attacked and defeated the Roman army. Against them was sent praetor Variniy but Spartak foresight inferior to the rich area of ​​Lucca. It organizes and equips people gradually builds a real army. Two years of victories and terror to Rome, who sees in the face of the mighty Thracian "new Hannibal." Suffered heavy losses even sent by the then Senate consuls Lucius Lentulus and published as Claudine. Punched his way to the Alps for some reason does not leave Spartak Italy and surprisingly hitting back. So suddenly under direct threat proved himself Rome! The Senate elected praetor Crassus, who with a newly formed army of experienced soldiers and veterans gained the upper hand. Senate ranks of famous generals Gnaeus Pompey from Spain and Lucius Licinius Lucullus from Asia Minor immediately to return to Italy with premium armies. Hearing this, Spartak reached Regium (today. Reggio Calabria) to transfer to Sicily. Bribed by the Romans, Cilicia pirates who had to transfer their ships insurrectionary army buck. With desperate courage Spartak breakthrough Roman blockade - its purpose is Brindisium (Brindisi), where to be transferred to Greece or Illyricum, near his native Thrace. Rebels were overtaken by a superior opponent and wounded Spartak dismounting and resting on one knee, fight until his death. Third Servile War, which manages from diverse, hard protruding discipline human mass (according to the Roman historian Appian 70,000 people), to organize efficient army is among the phenomena of ancient history. Spartak made mighty Rome helpless in its very heart - Italy, and then in time, when the Romans built their "world domination." Noble Thracian not acted, led only by a thirst for freedom and revenge. It has been suggested that Spartacus was under the influence of some contemporaneous philosophical ideas for building a just society (of iristonik of Pergamum, Antipater of Tarsus, Gaius Gaius Blossius) applied to some extent and in Rome itself from the brothers Gracchi.