Thrace

Constantinople (see other names) was a historical city located on the Bosporus, which served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman empires between its consecration in 330 and the formal abolition of the Ottoman sultanate in 1922. Constantinople was founded in 324, initially as New Rome, during the reign of Constantine the Great on the site of the existing settlement of Byzantium and in 330 became the capital of the Roman Empire. Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the late 5th century, Constantinople remained the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (also

thumb|Thrace in the modern boundaries of Bulgaria, [[Greece, and Turkey]] thumb|The physical–geographical boundaries of Thrace: the Balkan Mountains to the north, the [[Rhodope Mountains (highlighted) and the Bosporus]] thumb|The Roman province of Thrace thumb|The Byzantine thema of Thrace thumb|Map of Ancient Thrace made by Abraham Ortelius in 1585, stating both the names Thrace and Europe thumb|Thrace and the Thracian Odrysian Kingdom under [[Sitalces c. 431–424 BC, showing the territories of several Thracian tribes]] thumb|250px|right|Thrace in the Odrysian Kingdom showing several Thr

northeastern part of the Aegean Sea

Tiras ( Ṯīrās) is, according to the Book of Genesis () and 1 Chronicles, the seventh and youngest son of Japheth in the Hebrew Bible. A brother of biblical Javan (associated with the Greek people), its geographical locale is sometimes associated by scholars with the Teresh or Tursha, one of the groups which made up the Sea Peoples, a naval confederacy which terrorized Egypt and other Mediterranean nations around 1200 BCE. These Sea People are referred to as "Tursha" in an inscription of Ramesses III, and as "Teresh of the Sea" on the Merneptah Stele.

right|thumb|Kukeri in Razlog Kukeri (; singular: kuker, кукер) are elaborately costumed Bulgarian men, who perform traditional rituals intended to scare away evil spirits.

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