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Teres I

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For other uses, see Teres (disambiguation).

Life sized mask, belonging to King Teres I (c. 460–445 BC), unearthed in a mound at the Valley of the Thracian kings, Kazanlak region, Central Bulgaria. The mask is made of 23.5 carat gold and weighs 672 g (1.48 lb). The sensational discovery was made by Prof. Georgi Kitov and his team in August 2004. According to him, “There have been other gold masks discovered, but all of them are made of foil-thin gold. Gold masks with this shape and weight are absolutely unknown.”

 

Teres I (Greek: Τήρης, Ancient Greek: [tɛ́ːrɛːs]; reigned 460–445 BC)[1] was the first king of the Odrysian state of Thrace. Thrace had nominally been part of the Persian empire since 516 BC[2] during the rule of Darius the Great, and was re-subjugated by Mardonius in 492 BC.[3]

 

The Odrysian state was the first Thracian kingdom that acquired power in the region, by the unification[4] of many Thracian tribes under a single ruler, King Teres[5] probably in the 460's after the Persian defeat in Greece.[6] Teres, who united the 40 or more Thracian tribes under one banner, was well known for his military abilities and spent much of his life on the battlefield. He died during a military campaign in 445 BC. Historians argue it was against the Triballi, a Thracian tribe occupying a large amount of land to the north of Thrace.[citation needed] He was succeeded by his second son, Sitalces, who seemed to have taken on his father's fighting prowess and used all the tribes to wage war with Macedon.

 

Teres Ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, is named for Teres.

 

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