the ancient thracians were a group of 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. today people from thrace, no matter if they are turks, bulgarians, greeks, pomak or xoraxane roma, said simple we are thracians.