What happened to the Thracians how did they disappear from history completely

What happened to the Thracians how did they disappear from history completely

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The most honest answer you can have is that nobody really knows.

Illyrians?

They are still around however they are currently to busy wewuzing being steppe niggers to recognize what their genetics say.

assimilated by romans post phyrrus

>Illyrians were regarded as bloodthirsty, unpredictable, turbulent, and warlike by Greeks and Romans.[25] They were seen as savages on the edge of their world.[26] Polybius (3rd century BC) wrote: "the Romans had freed the Greeks from the enemies of all mankind".[27] According to the Romans, the Illyrians were tall and well-built.[28] Herodianus writes that "Pannonians are tall and strong always ready for a fight and to face danger but slow witted".[29] Livy wrote "...the coasts of Italy destitute of harbours, and, on the right, the Illyrians, Liburnians, and Istrians, nations of savages, and noted in general for piracy, he passed on to the coasts of the Venetians". Illyrian rulers wore bronze torques around their necks.[30]

so what did they look like, these pirates of the Adriatic?

A nations of seafaring Andre the Giants.

first they were assimilated by the greeks and romans, then they were assimilated by bulgarians

all barbarian tribes in europe that the romans conquered were assimilated by them

>Illyrian rulers wore bronze torques around their necks.
Interesting, that all the peoples around this region use Torcs.

Mongols destroyed Romania

Please send them to WWE, they really need more giants right now

I'd rather have them burn America to the ground and start from scratch. Something went very very wrong there.

Hellenized by Macedonians then fully assimilated by Romans (there was even an emperor of Thracian descent en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximinus_Thrax ), and finally they got taken over by Slavs and Bulghars.

There was however a mountain tribe called the Bessi who retained Thracian language and culture until the 4th century.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessi

Modern genetics claim that thracian DNA makes up as much as 45% of modern Bulgarians DNA - the rest being about 30% Slavic, 10% proto-bulgarian turkic and 5% unidentified mixture of genes.

i wonder if, ethics aside, it would be possible to find the people with the most of certain DNA of an ancient peoples, couple them and eventually produce humans as purely ethnic as possible.

Sounds like modern day albanians

Highly unlikely

The eternal R*man massacred half and assimilated the rest.

Yeah, apart from "tall and well built"

Assimilated most probably

For me it's Tpakuucku Nexomuheu

>N

Its a P

Trakiski Pehotinec aka Thracian infantry

Correct answer

The Byzzies really did a number on you lads with that fucking alphabet of yours. Bulgarian I assume?

>Bulgarian I assume?

Macedonian

>The Byzzies really did a number on you lads with that fucking alphabet of yours

The Cyrilic alphabet is beautiful lad, thats just a really shitty font

No, it isn't exactly. This level of certainty about a certain region in a past time is very common on online forums about Chinese knitting patterns, but in reality, as I've said previously, the academia does not know. I've attended lectures on Thracian history, archaeology of the Iron age in SE Europe, the Roman empire, and archaeology of the Late antiquity on the Balkans. Having said that, all of the lecturers admit they have no clear picture of what the Balkans were ethnos-wise. There are three popular opinions on when the Thracians disappeared as a people: 1) shortly after 50 CE (the conquering of Thrace by the Romans), 2) during the early Medieval age, after the settling of Slav and Bulgar peoples, and lastly 3) after the invasions of Pechenegs and Cumans in the middle of the 11th century.

If we look at the material culture of the provinces (not talking about cities here), the way people lived barely changed for centuries. What Rome usually does in newly conquered regions is to urbanize them, as in built cities the Roman way. And that's about it. The little settlements out in the country remained the same.

In short, we just don't know.

To further reinforce that. Last year during the regular excavation works of Philippopolis (that's the Roman capital of the province of Thracia) a new stone pillar with a signature was discovered (pictured). It more or less reads as : To the man who is the exemplar of his ancestors in the province, three times high priest of Thracia and its cities. He is the prefect of city of Trimontium (Philippopol) who during his first mandate as first archon developed and made the city more beautiful. Titus Flavius Kotis son of Rescruporis. From fish Kvirina.
The tablet was found in the Roman theater built in 90A.D just after the Roman conquest and it means the administration of the province was left more or less in Thracian hands.

>the administration of the province was left more or less in Thracian hands

It was entirely in Thracians hands. The elites of the Thracian state before the Roman conquest were incorporated in the Roman state by introducing the curiae in the cities. And "Titus Flavius Kotis son of Rescruporis" just illustrates how quickly this happened. Self-governing towns are an easy way to collect taxes from a territory, and these towns were ruled by the local elites. In this part of Europe Rome was in the town.

>tall, well bulit but slow thinking
that's Bosnian for you, South Bosnians to be more exact

>modern day albanians
>ever existing
Lmao

T. Zlatko Mario Mehmetovici

t. Toniblirilim Haxhillyrium

Left guy looks like a smurf

T. Maximilian August Turkroacici

t. Skanderkekerelim Turkųlurum Beyoğlü

t. Slobodan Butthurtovici

Lol it's trying to speak

This guy looks like a typical turk or muslim gypsy in my country(Bulgaria) who repeated 2nd grade 5 times and then dropped out of elementary, can't read or write, and screems "death to kuffars"

they were assimilated by the greeks first then romans then finally by the slavs

are the scorpions the bad guys

They are the brotherhood of nod, of ancient times

bezi kuci poturceni Srbine

impossible, chances are the ancient peoples werent purely ethnic in the first place.

Reminder that the first professional historian and (((athenian))) thucydides was part thracian nobility and spent his exile during the pelopponesian war on a thracian estate with hosnrelatives writing his history. Ergo thrace is the birthplace of modern historical writing

Ahem

Everyone did In Europe

Is that herodotus? I said “professional” history not pop history sweetie. Thicydides is thinking mans history ok

All history is pop history

That doesn't excuse you posting an image of the father of lies

History is full of lies

Marcus was angry

They're called Bulgarians today.

Well modern day genetic testing and linguistic analysis shows that the populations of modern day Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and Macedonia strongly resemble those of the ancient inhabitants of the region, with of course a heavy dose of Slavic, Greek, and Hunic admixtures, hence why the red hair that the ancients described the Thracians as possessing is no longer so prominent. Linguistically, many words that have been found on inscriptions in stone from back in those days are still used in the languages of the aforementioned places. As far as material culture is concerned, it seems the people who supposedly "replaced" the Thracians decided to retain their culture, as many of the designs from antiquity still exist in "ethno-traditional" pottery and textiles in Balkan countries.