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SUMMARY
During the Late Bronze Age, the Mycenaean Greeks and the early Thracians were already neighbours and coexisted in certain areas of the North Balkan Peninsula. A plethora of historical sources and archaeological data testify that from the 8th c. BC onwards, during the Greek colonisation of the North Aegean and the West Pontic shores of ancient Thrace, Greeks and Thracians lived together in various coastal settlements and regions and even mingled through intermarriage. In that period, many Thracians who came into closer contact with the Greeks were Hellenized and adopted the Greek alphabet and language. |
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