Thrace in Late Antiquity

Abstract

Late Antiquity in the eastern Balkans was a period of radical transformations. As the urban centers gradually lost their importance and wealth, the economic life gradually became dependent on and directed by the state. Settlements of new type appeared having entirely new economic profile and military function. High-ranking clergymen and military dominated in the local elites. As a result of both internal and external political factors, the dioceses of Thrace and Dacia prove to have been culturally heterogeneous. Territories south of Haemus and especially in the Rhodopes, however, represent cultural and probably also ethnic continuity leading into the Bulgarian Middle Ages.

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