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Thraco-Roman

Archaeological sites[edit]

• The Thraco-Roman Villa Rustica near Chatalka, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria^[2]
• Thraco-Roman Cult Complex built in the rocks near Strelkovo, Bulgaria^[3]

Famous individuals[edit]

This is a list of several important Thraco-Roman individuals:

• Maximinus Thrax, Roman Emperor from 235 to 238. His nickname "Thrax" which is "Thrachian" is due to his origin's.
• Regalianus, Roman general and imperial usurper.
• Aureolus, Roman military commander and imperial usurper.
• Galerius, Roman Emperor from 305 to 311.
• Licinius, Roman emperor from 308 to 324.
• Maximinus Daza, Roman emperor from 310 to 313.
• Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor and member of Thetrarchy, from 306 to 337. He was born in Naissus, Dacia Mediterranea and according to one of his dynastic member Julian the Apostate, his family was of Thracian origin from the Moesi tribe. Thus the Constantinian dynasty was one of the Thraco-Roman dynasties.
• Flavius Aetius, Roman general, called "the last of the Romans".
• Marcian, Eastern Roman Emperor from 450 to 457.
• Leo I, Eastern Roman emperor from 457 to 474, also called "Thrax" which is "Thrachian". His dynasty called Leonid were commonly referred as "The Thracian dynasty".
• John Cassian, a 4th-century monk who contributed to bringing the Egyptian monastic tradition to Western Europe. Born in Scythia Minor and died near modern-day Marseilles, southern France
• Dionysius Exiguus, a 6th-century monk born in Scythia Minor, most likely of local Thraco-Roman origin.^{[4]: 130–131}
• Justin I, Byzantine Emperor from 518 to 527, was of Thraco-Roman. He was father of Justinian the Great who was referred by John Malalas as being a Thracian.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}
• Vitalian, an East Roman general who rebelled in 513 against Emperor Anastasius I (r. 491–518). Vitalian may have been of local Thracian stock, born in Scythia Minor or in Moesia; his father bore a Latin name, Patriciolus, while two of his sons had Thracian names and one a Gothic name.^[4]: 129
• Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565 and born in Tauresium^[10] around 482.^{[citation needed]} His Latin-speaking peasant family was of Thraco-Roman origin as John Malalas writes.^[11][12][13]
• Belisarius, a general during the reign of Justinian I. He was born in Germane (nowadays Sapareva Banya) in Western Thrace or in Germania in Dacia Mediterranea, possibly of Thraco-Roman or Greek origin. Commanded several campaigns for reconquering Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire. He also earned the title "Last of the Romans"
• Justin II, nephew of Justinian and Eastern Roman Emperor from 565 to 578. He was a member of the Justinianian dynasty, which are one of the Thraco-Roman dynasties.
• Tiberius II Constantine, count of the Excubitors and Eastern Roman Emperor from 578 to 582.
• Phocas, Byzantine emperor from 602 to 610.

See also[edit]

• Daco-Roman
• Illyro-Roman
• Origin of the Romanians

Further reading[edit]

• (in Romanian) Sorin Olteanu, The administrative organisation of the Balkan provinces in the 6th century AD
• (in English) Stelian Brezeanu: Toponymy and ethnic Realities at the Lower Danube in the 10th Century. “The deserted Cities" in Constantine Porphyrogenitus' De administrando imperio
• (in English) Kelley L. Ross The Vlach Connection and Further Reflections on Roman History

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