List of Thracian Greeks

This is a list of Greeks from Thrace.

Ancient

Artists Brygos Attic Painter/Potter (possibly of Thracian origin)Paul Kretschmer. Die Griechischen Vaseninschriften ihrer Sprache nach untersucht. Athenion of Maroneia Painter Boethus of Chalcedon Sculptor

Athletes _of Maroneia Pale Greek Wrestling Olympics 476 BC

Grammarians Aristarchus of Samothrace Aristophanes of Byzantium Dionysius Thrax

Historians Thucydides Hecataeus of Abdera Stephanus of Byzantium Hieronymus of Cardia

Mathematicians Bion of Abdera Philo of Byzantium Epigenes of Byzantium

Mythic Lovers Hero and Leander

Philosophers Leucippus Protagoras Diogenes Apolloniates Thrasymachus Democritus Xenocrates Anaxarchus Hecataeus of Abdera Hipparchia of Maroneia Metrocles Antisthenes of Athens

Physicians Herodicus

Poets Nicaenetus of Samos Sotades of Maroneia Phaedimus of Bisanthe

Rulers-Politicians Miltiades the Elder Miltiades Cimon Themistocles Cleophon (politician) Thucydides Nymphodorus of Abdera Python of Aenus Heraclides of Aenus Eumenes Lysimachus Agathocles (son of Lysimachus)

Hellenized Thracians List of rulers of Bithynia Nicomedes I of Bithynia Spartocid dynasty Abrotonum Olorus Hegesipyle of Olorus Dolonci (Δόλογγες)

Medieval Photios I of Constantinople Nikephoros Bryennios (ethnarch) Komnenos dynasty Manuel Erotikos Komnenos

Byzantine Emperors from Thrace Tiberius II Constantine Phocas Macedonian dynasty Basil I the Macedonian Basil II John II Komnenos Manuel Komnenos Vatatzes John Doukas Vatatzes John V Palaiologos Constantine Palaiologos

Modern Antonios Komizopoulos Alexandros Mavrokordatos Karpos Papadopoulos Joachim III of Constantinople Georgios Vizyinos Constantin Carathéodory Kostas Varnalis Nikos Zachariadis Christos Tsigiridis maternal grandparents of Alexis Tsipras Manos Hatzidakis

Ancient Greek cities in Thrace

Aegean Thrace

In order from west to east:

Stryme Abdera Ismaros Maroneia Samothrace Aenus Lysimachia

Thracian Chersonese

Abydos, Hellespont Alopeconnesus Aegospotami Callipolis Cardia Elaeus Sestus

Propontis

Bisanthe Perinthus Selymbria

Bosporus

Byzantium, later renamed Constantinople Chalcedon

Pontus Euxinus

In order from north to south:

Histria Tomi Callatis Dionysopolis or Krounoi Odessos or Odessopolis Naulochos Mesembria Anchialos Apollonia Agathopolis

References

See also Eastern Macedonia-Thrace Western Thrace East Thrace Northern Thrace Eastern Rumelia Thracia Thrace (theme) Macedonia (theme) Adrianople Byzantines Romioi

External links Map of Greek Colonies in Thrace