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Thrace is the northernmost but also the easternmost geographic apartment in Greece. The River Evros is Greece’s main border, but at the same time it is a means of communication and interaction between the two peoples, Greeks and Turks.

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Thrace is bordered by the Nestos River to the west, the Evros River to the east, the Thracian Gulf to the south and Bulgaria with the Rhodope mountain range to the north including several cities such as Alexandroupoli, Komotini, Xanthi, and Kavala, along with smaller towns like Philippi and Soufli, but important for different reasons, as well as the islands of Thasos and Samothrace.

In the 4th century BCE, it was conquered by Philip the Second of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great, and later by the Romans in the 2nd century BCE. During the Byzantine era (4th to 15th centuries CE), Thrace’s status grew significantly due to its proximity to the new capital of the Roman Empire, Constantinople. Thrace was conquered by the Ottomans in 1375, before the 1453 fall of Constantinople. During that period, many Thracians were Islamized.

In 1920, under the Treaty of Sevres following WWI, the victorious Great Powers ceded to Greece eastern Thrace (from the Evros River eastward to present-day European Turkey) as well as western Thrace, west from the Evros to the Nestos River, which today is the natural border between Greece and Turkey. In 1922, after the Asia Minor catastrophe, Greece was forced to cede eastern Thrace to Turkey. A population exchange between Greece and Turkey took place in the following year, accounting for the significant presence of Muslims.

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