The Odrysian State, which emerged at the beginning of the fifth century BCE and at least lasted through the end of the 1st century BC, was a monarchy made up of numerous Thracian tribes unified by the Odrysae. It mostly included what is now Bulgaria, as well as portions of Northern Greece, Southeastern Romania and European Turkey i.e. Northern Dobruja. It became the first more significant political unit in the eastern Balkans, the biggest and most potent Thracian state ruled by the titular Odrysian people. It had no definite capital prior to the establishment of Seuthopolis in the late 4th century BCE. King Teres I established the Odrysian empire by capitalising on the Persian foothold in Europe ceasing as a result of their abortive invasion of Greece in 480 –479 BCE. The expansionist strategy of Teres and his son Sitalces helped to make the realm among the most formidable in its era. It remained friend of Athens for a large portion of its early history, even joining the side of the latter in the Peloponnesian War. Although the able Cotys I started a fleeting revival that lasted until his assassination in 360 BC, the state began to exhibit indications of exhaustion by 400 BC. After that, the kingdom fell apart, with the northeast coming under the control of the kingdom of the Getae, while southern and central Thrace were divided among three Odrysian kings. The ascendant Macedonian empire led by Philip II eventually overthrew the three Odrysian kingdoms in 340 BC. Seuthes III, who established a new city called Seuthopolis that lasted until the second quarter of the third century BC, resurrected a much smaller Odrysian state in around 330. Except for a doubtful Odrysian monarch named Cotys who fought in the Third Macedonian War, there is not much further proof of the existence of an Odrysian state. The Sapaean monarchy subsequently absorbed the stronghold of the Odrysians in the late 1st century BC and Thracia became a Roman province in 45–46 AD. [Information and Image Credit : Odrysian_kingdom, Wikipedia] [Image : The Zenith of the Odrysian Kingdom under King Sitalces] [Image Availed Under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported ; Image-Author Wikipedia : Alexikoua (Please Relate to Individual Source Image URL for More Usage Properties) ] [License-Link : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en ]
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