Left without a Thrace

"More than 15,000 golden pieces of Thracian royal jewellery dating back to the 3rd millennium BC have been unearthed in Bulgaria, archaeologists say."The golden objects unearthed near the village of Dabene in central Bulgaria are not just pieces of Thracian jewellery. They are objects of exquisite regal ornamentation," says Associate Professor Bozhidar Dimitrov, director of Sofia's National Museum of History." http://abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_1440762.htm
"Most of what is known about the Thracians, a nation of illiterate and loosely organised tribes, comes from the written accounts by the ancient Greeks who called them barbarians." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/26/wtomb26.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/07/26/ixportal.html
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrace : "...as non-Greek speakers, they were viewed by the Greeks as barbarians."