Excerpt from The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology, 1855, Vol. 2 The country known by the name of Thrace formed but a very small portion of the regions over which the Thracian race was once spread. For the Thracians, taking the name in its widest sense, were not merely the inhabitants of a single district or country, but were, like the Celts and Germans, one of the great families of nations, in each of which many tribes and peeples were comprisedl. Their importance in ancient times is satisfactorily established. The Thracians are spoken of by Herodotus as being, next to the Indians, the greatest nation in existence; that is to say, the most important nation in respect of numbers with which he was acquainted, the Indians only excepted2. Several branches of this family were established in the modern Anatolia, all the ancient peoples in Asia Minor to the west of the Halys being of kindred race with one another, and with the preper Thracians 3. With respect to each of these peoples, the relationship to the Thracians is beyond a doubt. Between the Mysians, Lydians, and Carians, a certain degree of brotherhood was known to exist; and the Mysians and Mmsians, in Europe and Asia, are mentioned by Strabo as being Thracians5. The Bithynians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.