thracians - Famous Thracians and Dacians

• Amadocus, a king after whom Amadok Point was named.

• Burebista was a king of Dacia between 70 BC - 44 BC who united under his rule Thracians in a large territory, from today's Moravia in the West, to the Bug river (Ukraine) in the East, and from Northern Carpathians to Southern Dionysopolis.

• Sitalces was a king of the Thracian Odrysian state. An ally of the Athenians during the Peloponnesian war

• Decebalus, a king of Dacia ultimately defeated by the forces of Trajan.

• Dionysus, the Thracian god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficent influences.

• Orpheus, in Greek legend, was the chief representative of the art of song and playing the lyre, and of great importance in the religious history of Bulgaria and Greece.

• Spartacus was a Thracian enslaved by the Romans, who led a large slave uprising in what is now Italy in (73 BC - 71 BC). Before being defeated, his army of escaped gladiators and slaves defeated several Roman legions in what is known as the Third Servile War.

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