- This article is about the country "Thrace" and its people. For
a list of Thracian characters, see Thracian (category list). For
the gladiator class based on this race, see Thraex. Thrace is
the homeland of Spartacus and Sura, as well as Drenis and Byzo.
It is a country filled with multiple villages of what Romans
would consider barbarians, living in their own communities
without larger cities. One is who is from Thrace is often called
a Thracian, which later becomes a nickname for Spartacus
himself. The specific location of the homeland of the Thracian
tribe of the Maedi, Spartacus' people, is found in the modern
Bulgarian Blagoevgrad Province, along the banks of the the
Strymon River between Rupel Pass and Kresna Gorge. Thrace, in
the lifetime of Spartacus, was divided into several tribal
kingdoms that arose from the division of the old Odrysian
Kingdom under the Sapaean and Astean dynasties. All these
kingdoms, given their proximity to the Roman Province of
Macedonia, were clients of the Republic of Rome,