ANCIENT ZONE (Code: )

On the south-east coast of Thrace, between the Mount Ismaros and the Hebrus (Evros) River, Greek colonists from Samothrace built a series of  fortified installations in the late 7th c. BC, which Herodotus calls “Samothracian forts”. These installations, that comprised the Peraia of  Samothrace, exploited to the maximum the potential of this area to control the passages from east to west and access to the interior of Thrace  as well as to provide civic services and imported goods to the rapidly growing elite of the thracian Odrysian kingdom.