Thracia

Provincia Thracia
ἐπαρχία Θρᾳκῶν
Provincia Thracia; ἐπαρχία Θρᾳκῶν
Province of the Roman Empire
46–c. 680 AD
	; The province of Thracia within the Roman Empire, c. 125 AD
Capital	Heraclea Perinthus; (modern-day Marmara Ereğlisi, Turkey)
Historical era	Classical antiquity
• Annexation of Thracian client state	46
• Division by Diocletian	293
• Theme of Thrace established	c. 680 AD
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Thracian Kingdom
Thrace (theme)
Macedonia (theme)
Today part of	Turkey; Greece; Bulgaria

Thracia or Thrace (Ancient Greek: Θρᾴκη, romanized: Thrakē) is the ancient name given to the southeastern Balkan region, the land inhabited by the Thracians. Thrace was ruled by the Odrysian kingdom during the Classical and Hellenistic eras, and briefly by the Greek Diadochi ruler Lysimachus, but became a client state of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire as the Sapaean kingdom. Roman emperor Claudius annexed the kingdom as a Roman province in 46 AD.