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They spoke Thracian language. As non- Greek speakers, they were viewed as barbarians by the Greeks. Thracians had red hair and grey eyes, as did their gods.
In the Neolithic ages, Thracians inhabited Northern Greece up to the Danube, the northern parts of Asia Minor, Boiotia, and Evoia.
In the 7th millennia B.C., Thracians occupied the area between northern Greece and southern Russia.
Josephus claims the founder of the Thracians was the biblical character Tiras , son of Japheth. "Thiras also called those whom he ruled over Thirasians; but the Greeks changed the name into Thracians.", AotJ I:6.The Thracians and Mycenaeans belonged to the same group from Europe originally. They split : the Mycenaeans settled in Greece and the Thracians settled in Thrace.
In the Illiad, the Thracians agreed to fight on the side of the Mycanean Greeks in the Trojan WarThe Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of Greece, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. The war figures centrally in Greek mythology and was narrated. According to HomerFor other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). Homer ( Greek Ὅμηρος Hómēros was a legendary (or perhaps mythical) early Greek poet traditionally credited with authorship of the major Greek epics Iliad a, the Thracians did not fulfill this promise. In the OdysseyFor the cable TV channel formerly called Odyssey, see the Hallmark Channel. The Odyssey is the second of the two great Greek epic poems ascribed to Homer, the first being the Iliad''. The book follows the events of the voyage of Odysseus, king of Ithaca,, OdysseusThis article is about the mythological character. See also Odysseus crater, Ulysses (robot), Ulysses (novel Odysseus Laertiades (Greek: ', 'son of Laertes'), or simply Odysseus is a character in Greek mythology, known as Ulysses or Ulixes in Roman mytholo and his men raided Thrace on their way back home from the war. This was to punish them for their cowardice.