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Heritage Floor Tags > location: Bulgaria

Arsinoe II
b. circa 316 B.C., Thrace (modern-day Greece and Bulgaria); d. 270 B.C., ancient EgyptArsinoe II was, first, queen of Thrace, then co-ruler of Egypt with her brother and husband, Ptolemy II. She and Ptolemy shared all power, appearing on coinage together and jointly... Read more

Hecate
Mythic, worshipped in ancient Greece, dates vary, beginning circa 1600 B.C.Hecate originated in Thrace, an area that today covers parts of Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, as a goddess of wilderness and childbirth, but as a Greek deity she evolved into... Read more

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