Thrace

(Local Name: Thráki) Thrace, the most northeasterly province of Greece, of which it became part only in 1913, is named after the Thracians who settled here from the second millennium B.C. onwards. It extends in a long narrow strip, between the northern Aegean and Bulgaria, from Néstos in the west to the river Évros in the east, which forms the frontier with Turkey. Like Macedonia, Thrace is a land of fertile plains, an agricultural region which in addition to corn and in recent years rice also produces tobacco. The chief town is Komotiní.