Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on Greek colonies in Thrace.More info: This is a list of ancient Cities in Thrace and Dacia, towns, villages, and fortresses and on their borders. A number of these settlements were Greek cities, some were Thracian, Dacian, Paeonian, Celtic, Roman or Persian. An asterisk *] indicates that the toponym is reconstructed. A number of cities in Thrace were built on the sites or close to the sites of pre-existing Thracian settlements though that was not always the case. Some settlements may have a double entry; i.e., Paeonian Astibo and Latin Astibus. The only attempt to built a polis by the Thracians was Seuthopolis.Also Thracians did not built cities even if they were and are named thus.At best the largest Thracian cities were large villages. *Ismara or Ismaros a Ciconian town mentioned by Homer, also Mount. Ismaros