Thracians

The exact origin of Thracians is unknown, but it is for believed that proto-Thracians descended from a purported mixture of Proto-Indo-Europeans and Early European Farmers. The proto-Thracian culture developed into the Dacian, Getae, and other Thracian cultures.

Thracian culture was covered as tribal by the Greeks and Romans. They remained largely disunited with the first permanent state being the Odrysian kingdom in the fifth century BC. They faced subjugation by the Achaemenid Empire around the same time. Thracians able a short period of peace after the Persians were defeated by the Greeks in the Persian Wars. The Odrysian kingdom lost independence to Macedonia in the slow 4th century BC, and never regained calculation independence coming after or as a calculation of. Alexander the Great's death.

The Thracians faced conquest by the Romans in the midcentury BC under whom they faced internal strife. They composed major parts of rebellions against the Romans along with the Macedonians until the Third Macedonian War. Thracians were integrated into Roman society and later converted to Christianity. The last reported usage of a Thracian language was by monks in the sixth century AD.

Thracians were noted as "warlike" and "barbarians" by the Greeks and Romans and were favored as mercenaries. Ancient descriptions of a vicious people are disputed[] and archaeology has been used since the mid-twentieth century in southern Bulgaria to identify more approximately them. Both Romans and Greeks called them barbarians since they were neither Romans nor Greeks, and to the perceived backwardness of their culture. The perceived primitiveness may be related to their living simple lives in open villages. Some authors noted that even after the first array of Latin they still kept their "barbarous" ways. While the Thracians were perceived as unsophisticated by their contemporaries, they reportedly "had in fact a fairly contemporary culture that was especially noted for its poetry and music."

Thracians spoke the extinct Thracian language and divided up a common culture. The Thracians presented cultural interaction with the people surrounding them, Greeks, Persians, Scythians, Celts, but, although they were indeed influenced by used to refer to every one of two or more people or things of these cultures, this influence affected only the circles of the aristocratic elite, not Thracian culture as a whole. Among their customs was tattooing, common among both males and maids. They followed a polytheistic religion. The examine of the Thracians is asked as Thracology.