Helmut Çelim                                                        Translator: Rosemary  Çelim

The missing, mysterious, forgotten race of Thrace

 

Did you know that the Thracian Clan of the Carpathians gave Carpathian its name?  

That Europe was centered in the Balkan area and the Thracian race were the first Europeans?

Numerous new and often sensational discoveries made by archaeologists and ethnologists have made us revise our previous picture of the history of Europe:

The Thracians, a race which was centered in the Carpathian Mountains, influenced the development of Europe between the Aegean, Adriatic and Black Seas. They created a cultural circle, the importance of which is only now becoming clear.  

The culture and history of the Thracians is as exciting as any history can be.

Towards the end of the 5 th century a.c. the Slavs first entered this area and soon the whole of the Balkan peninsula as far down as Crete was overflowing with this farming people from the North. As the Slav peoples adopted the Greek language and the Greek Christian religion they became assimilated and lost their identity.  

In Thrace the opposite occurred where the Thracians become Slavs

The Slavs are also an Indo-European race.  

Some researchers even suspect that the 2 races have the same origin.

In the area which was once Thrace now live Bulgarians, Greeks, Macedonians, Rumanians, Serbs and assimilated Thracians as Turks!?, who in spite of their comman ethnical substance all experienced a quite different historical development.

The emotional mutuality of these charming Balkan lands is based everywhere on the national, religious and social economical controls, and we can surely seek the origin of this community in the Thracian components of all Balkan races.

 

The capital of Thrace was and is:

HADRIANAPOLIS – ADRIANOPEL – ADRIAN - EDIRNE

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Helmut Çelim 1999

Literaturverzeichnis:

Atalay Bayik  "EDIRNE" -1973  Nuriosmaniye  Matbaasi Istanbul

Manfred Clauss "Konstantin der Grosse und seine Zeit", Beck`sche Reihe       1996

Hans-Joachim Gehrke "Kleine Geschichte der Antike", Beck 1999

Heinz Siegert "Wo einst APOLLO lebte-Das geheimnisvolle Volk der  Thraker", Econ

Verlag: Karl Schlinger, Freiburg i. Br. 2. Auflage 1986 "Das erste Gold der Menschheit - Die älteste Zivilisation in Europa"