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Was an ancient Thracian state, located in present-day Bulgaria, southeastern Romania (northern Dobruja), northern Greece and European Turkey.
Establishment
January 478 BC: The Odrysians eventually stepped into the light of history in the aftermath of the Persian failure in Greece. Teres most likely came to dominate central Thrace soon after 480 BC.
Chronology
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Were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states.
1.1.Greek reconquests after the Second Persian Invasion of Greece
The final defeat of the Persians at Mycale during the Second Persian Invasion of Greece encouraged the Greek cities of Asia to revolt, and the Persians lost all of their territories in Europe.
Were a series of conflicts that were fought between the generals of Alexander the Great, known as the Diadochi, over who would rule his empire following his death.
2.1.Consolidation of the borders after the Third War of the Diadochi
Were a series of events and military operations after the Third war of the Diadochi that led to the consolidation of the borders between the successor states of the Macedonian Empire.
January 292 BC: Demetrios (Antigonid Dynasty) occupies Thrace.
February 292 BC: Demetrios (Antigonid Dynasty) leave Thrace.
The Gauls invaded Macedonia and, after defeating and killing its King Ptolomeus Keraunos, took control of the region.
January 276 BC: Following their invasion of Thrace and Greece in 279 BC, the Gauls were defeated by the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas in the Battle of Lysimachia in 277 BC, after which they turned inland to Thrace and founded their kingdom at Tylis.
The Kingdom of Tylis was destroyed by an invasion of the Thracians.
January 211 BC: The last king of Tylis was Cavarus who maintained good relations with the city of Byzantium. His capital was destroyed by the Thracians in 212 BC and this was also the end of his kingdom.
January 430 BC: Dionysopolis was a polis founded around the V Century.
January 430 BC: In -431, Teres and his son Sitalces, rulers of the Odrysian Kingdom, expanded their territory from the Danube in the north to the outskirts of Abdera at the Aegean Sea. Teres was a powerful king of the Odrysians, while Sitalces succeeded him and further expanded their realm.
January 424 BC: Pistiros was founded in the 3rd quarter of the 5th century BC.
January 400 BC: Sirra was a greek polis in ancient Thrace between the Strymon and Nestos rivers.
January 399 BC: About 400 BC, Bisanthe belonged to the kingdom of the Thracian prince Seuthes II.
January 361 BC: In 363/2 BC Cotys was more successful and repeatedly defeated several Athenian generals. Thus, the Chersonese and the Hellespont had come under direct Odrysian rule.
January 359 BC: The Getae perhaps became independent during the rule of Odrysian king Cotys I or after his death in 360 BC.
January 359 BC: Datos, a greek polis in ancient Thrace between the Strymon and Nestos rivers, was founded around the year 360 BC.
January 359 BC: Pistiros was reintegrated to the Odrsyian Kingdom during the reign of Cotys I.
January 359 BC: Krenides, a greek polis in ancient Thrace between the Strymon and Nestos rivers, was founded around the year 360 BC.
January 358 BC: The Chersonese and the Hellespont had come under direct Odrysian rule. This achievement, however, proved shortlived, much to Athens relief, Cotys I was eventually murdered in 360/59 BC.
January 358 BC: The death of Odrysian king Cotys marked the beginning of the kingdom's downfall. The Odrysian state was divided among three competing kings: Cersebleptes, the son of Cotys, ruled the eastern parts beyond the lower Hebros and Tonzos.
January 358 BC: Amadocus II, perhaps a son of Amadocus I, ruled central Thrace between Maroneia and the Meritsa.
January 358 BC: Berisades controlled the western part from Maroneia in the east to the Styrmon in the west.
January 322 BC: Both parties eventually reached a settlement, restricting Seuthes to the interior and Lysimachus to the coastal regions of the Aegean and Black Sea. There is no evidence for Lysimachus vassalizing Seuthes.
January 182 BC: The Macedonians defeated the Odrysians and other local tribes and conquered Philipopolis.
January 181 BC: The Odrysians, a Thracian tribe ruled by King Teres III, reconquered Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv).
January 180 BC: While in 181, Philip was still climbing the Haemus in northern Thrace, his Thracian empire collapsed with his death two years later.
January 178 BC: While in 181, Philip was still climbing the Haemus in northern Thrace, his Thracian empire collapsed with his death two years later.
January 27 BC: In 28/29 BC Rholes, a Getic ruler from Southern Dobruja, supported the proconsul of Macedonia, Marcus Licinius Crassus, in his action against the Bastarnae. Declared friend and ally of the Roman people by Octavian, Rholes helped Crassus in conquering the states of Dapyx (in central Dobruja) and Zyraxes (in the north of the region). Dobruja became part of the client kingdom of the Odrysians.
Disestablishment
January 19 BC: The Odrysian kingdom of Thrace became a Roman client kingdom c. 20 BC.
Odrysian Kingdom
