sentences:  The traditional account from antiquity is that Samothrace was first inhabited by Pelasgians and Carians, and later Thracians.At the end of the 8th century BC the island was colonised by Greeks from Samos, from which the name Samos of Thrace, that later became Samothrace; however, Strabo denies this.The archaeological evidence suggests that Greek settlement was in the sixth century BC.