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Thrace

Ancient name
Thrace
Modern country
Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey
Thrace was a Roman province corresponding to the area between the Balkans/Macedonia, the Aegean Sea, and the Black Sea, on the western side of the Hellespont and Bosphorus. Like its neighbor Bithynia, it appears on only one Sfera manuscript (Bos), probably as a result of Ptolemaic influence.
Coordinates
40.94, 25.29
World Historical Gazetteer
https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364398
This toponym does not appear in the poem, only on the maps accompanying it.
Map of the location M107

Variant spellings of Thrace in Sfera manuscripts

Variant Manuscripts
tracia Bos
Suggested citation
Beneš, Carrie. “Thrace.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/thrace/.