The matter of hypotheses about the ethnogenesis of the Thracians is basically threefold:
The first claims, not without reason and based on historians who lived at the same time, that the Thracians were the autochthonous population of the Balkans, in the region between the Black and Mediterranean seas.
The second advocates the idea that they came to southeastern Europe from somewhere, but from where... there is no record of any stated ancestral home, nor is it supported by archaeological finds and discoveries.
The third hypothesis, relying on the fact that ethnogenesis is a millennial process, as well as some archaeological findings, suggests that the Thracians were formed in Southeastern Europe as a result of the integration of the indigenous population and the Thracian people, which, however, does not indicate where they came from, if not autochthonous.
Two or three millennia ago, ancient Thracian tribes inhabited the territory of present-day Bulgaria as well as extensive neighbouring areas of the Balkan Peninsula. According to the ancient Greek historian and geographer Strabo, the Thracian tribes numbered 22, but according to modern scholars - about 80. Among the most famous tribes are those of the Bessi, the Odrisi, the Mysians, the Getae, the Dacians, the Tribals, and the Vittini. We have records of separate state formations among them as early as the middle of the 2nd millennium BC.
Pre-Flood culture and civilization in the Black Sea was Thracian. This civilization preceded the later emerging cultures in Mesopotamia, Egypt, etc. by several millennia.
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Origin of the Thracians
07.04.2023