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Feb 24, 2021 · Greece is bordered by 4 Nations: by North Macedonia and Bulgaria in the north, Albania in the northwest, and Turkey in the northeast. It is also bounded by the Aegean Sea in the east, Ionian Sea in the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea in the south.
The Greek part corresponds to Western Thrace and represents the northeastern tip of mainland Greece. It is bordered to the east by the Greek region of Macedonia, to the west by Turkish Thrace and to the north by Bulgarian Thrace, while to the south it faces the Aegean Sea.
Thracia or Thrace (Ancient Greek: Θρᾴκη, romanized: Thrakē) is the ancient name given to the southeastern Balkan region, the land inhabited by the Thracians. Thrace was ruled by the Odrysian kingdom during the Classical and Hellenistic eras, and briefly by the Greek Diadochi ruler Lysimachus , but became a client state of the late Roman ...
- Edirne
- Oil-wrestling in Edırne: The Kırkpınar Festival
- Selimiye Camii
More than just the quintessential border town, EDİRNE– 230km northwest of İstanbul – is one of the best-preserved Ottoman cities, and makes an impressive, easily digestible introduction to Turkey. A lively, attractive place of almost 140,000 people, it occupies a rise overlooking the mingling of the Tunca, Arda and Meriç rivers, very near the Greek...
Oil-wrestling (yağlı güreş) is popular throughout Turkey, but reaches the pinnacle of acclaim at the doyenne of tournaments, the three-day annual Kırkpınar festival, staged early each summer on Sarayiçi islet outside Edirne (wkirkpinar.com or wturkishwrestling.com). The preferred date is the first week of July, but the event is moved back into June...
Designed by the eighty-year-old Mimar Sinan in 1569, at the command of Selim II, the masterly Selimiye Camiiis one of Turkey’s finest mosques. The work of a confident craftsman at the height of his powers, it’s visible from some distance away on the Thracian plain. You can approach the Selimiye across the central park, Dilaver Bey, then through the...
The area of Greek Thrace is 8,578 square kilometres where its eastern border with Turkey is formed by the Maritsa River - so called by the Bulgarians which is also called the Evros by Greeks and the Meric by the Turks and which flows southward into the Aegean Sea after flowing eastward across the southern section of Bulgaria.
Culturally, the region is a bit mixed, situated as it is near Bulgaria and Turkey. There are Muslim population centers. including the interesting Pomaks, a Bulgarian-Turkish speaking Muslim enclave of 50,000 out of Thrace's total population of 370,000. There are an additional 70,000 Muslims in Thrace, giving Thrace a 30%-70% Muslim-Christian split.
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Turkey borders Armenia, Iran, and Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) in the east, Georgia in the northeast, Bulgaria and Greece in the northwest, and Iraq and Syria in the southeast. Turkey shares maritime borders with Cyprus, Egypt, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine.
