What is Thracians?
The ancient '''Thracians''' were a group of [[Indo-European peoples|Indo-European tribes]] who spoke the [[Thracian language]] - a rare branch of the [[Indo-European language family]]. Those peoples lived in [[Thrace]]: the eastern, central and southern part of the [[Balkan peninsula]], and the adjacent parts of [[Eastern Europe]]. The [[Pomak]] claimed to be descendants of this old Trachians.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Thracians, 700 BC - AD 46|author=Christopher Webber, Angus McBride|year=2001|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=1841763292}}</ref> Today People from Thrace, no matter if they are Turks, Bulgarians, Greeks, Pomak or Xoraxane Roma, said simple we are Thracians.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/greece/Greec991-06.htm | title=The Turks of Western Thrace }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:History of Europe]] [[Category:Indo-European]] [[Category:Ethnic groups in Europe]]