Thracians

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

thumb|250px|Bronze head of Seuthes III from his tomb The Thracians (; ; or Θρήϊκες in Ionic Greek) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe in ancient history. Thracians resided mainly in Southeast Europe in modern-day Bulgaria, Romania, North Macedonia, northern Greece and European Turkey, but also in north-western Anatolia (Asia Minor) in Turkey.

thumb|Roman head of a Dacian of the type known from Trajan's Forum, AD 120–130, marble, on 18th-century bust|313x313px

right|thumb|The area of land most often historically associated with the Getae people, shown in red dots at the mouth of the Danube River|307x307px The Getae or Getai ( or , or ; Ancient Greek: Γέται; also Getans) were a large nation who inhabited the regions to either side of the Lower Danube in what is today northern Bulgaria and southern Romania, throughout much of Classical Antiquity. The main source of information about the Getae are Greek and Roman chroniclers, who write that the Getae were closely related to the neighbouring Thracians to the south and Dacians to the north. Cassius Dio w