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The Thrace (, ) was a province of the Roman Empire that occupied the historical region of Thrace, that is the south-eastern end of the Balkan Peninsula which included today's northeast of Greece, the south of Bulgaria and European Turkey.

Statute

Province in 46 A.D. by Claudio under the command of a prosecutor Augusti of rank CC. The statute of the province was modified with Trajan, who probably in 112 AD replaced the prosecutor with a prehistoric rank tie.

Diocletian's subsequent reforms, confirmed by Constantine I and later by Theodosius I, saw the province divided into 4: Europe, Thrace, Haemimontus and Rhodope.

History
The Thrace as the province of Rome was established by Emperor Claudius in 46.

The barbaric invasions of the 3rd century

During the 3rd century he had to undergo barbaric invasions. In 249 Decio, appointed Roman emperor by the army in revolt, to be able to win the civil war against the legitimate emperor Philip the Arab, broke out the Balkan region of troops, allowing the Goths to plunder it. It seems that the Goths, once the frozen Danube passed, divided into two columns of march. The first orde went to Thrace to Philippolis (the present Plovdiv), where they besieged the governor Tito Giulio Prisco; the second, more numerous (it is spoken of as many as seventy thousand men) and commanded by Cniva, pushed to Lower Mesia, up under the walls of Novae. Meanwhile, Decio, aware of the difficult situation in which the entire Balkan-Danubian front was located, decided to personally notice: after dismissing the Carpi from the Dacian province, the emperor was now determined to land the way back to the Goths in Thrace and to annihilate them to avoid reuniting and venting new future attacks, as Zosimo narrates. Leaving Treboniano Gallo in Novae, on the Danube, he managed to surprise and beat Cniva while he was still besieging the month town of Nicopoli. The barbaric hordes managed to get away, and after crossing the entire Balkan Peninsula, they attacked the city of Philippolis. Decio, determined to chase them, suffered a cocent defeat at Beroe Augusta Traiana (the current Stara Zagora). The defeat inflicted on Decio was so heavy to prevent the emperor not only the continuation of the campaign, but above all the possibility of saving Philippolis, who fell into the hands of the Goths, was plundered and burned. Of the governor of Thrace, Titus Julius Prisco, who had tried to proclaim himself emperor, no one knew anything. In the year 251, Emperor Decio was defeated and killed by the Goths.

In the year 262 the Goths made new sea raids along the coasts of the Black Sea, plundering Bisanzio, the ancient Ilio and Ephesus. Between the end of 267 and the beginning of 268 a new and immense invasion by the Goths, together with Peucini, to the "last arrived" in the region of