page_title: Sitalces
hierarchical_section_title: Sitalces
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Odrysian kingdom &amp; Environs,431 BC,The location of the Thracian tribes are approximate (see page 108 Fig. 4.2 from the The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace cited below) Own work,data from The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace: Orpheus Unmasked (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) by Z. H. Archibald,1998,ISBN-10-0198150474 A history of the classical Greek world: 478-323 BC By Peter John Rhodes,ISBN 1405192860 (2006) See also: File:Map_athenian_empire_431_BC-fr.svg Blank map Blank map from Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greece_large_topographic_basemap.svg
context_page_description: Sitalces was one of the great kings of the Thracian Odrysian state. Suda called him Sitalcus.
  He was the son of Teres I, and on the sudden death of his father in 431 BC succeeded to the throne. Sitalces enlarged his kingdom by successful wars, and it soon comprised the whole territory from Abdera in the south to the mouths of the Danube in the north, and from the Black Sea in the east to the sources of the Struma in the west.
  At the commencement of the Peloponnesian war Sitalces entered into alliance with the Athenians, and in 429 BC he invaded Macedon with a vast army that included 150,000 warriors from independent Thracian tribes and Paeonian tribes. He was obliged to retire through failure of provisions.
  Sitalces was killed in 424 by the Thracian Triballi. He was succeeded on the Odrysian throne by Seuthes.
  Sitalk Peak on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named for Sitalces.
context_section_description: Sitalces (Sitalkes) (/sɪˈtælˌsiːz/; Ancient Greek: Σιτάλκης, reigned 431 – 424 BC) was one of the great kings of the Thracian Odrysian state.  Suda called him Sitalcus (Σίταλκος).
  He was the son of Teres I, and on the sudden death of his father in 431 BC succeeded to the throne. Sitalces enlarged his kingdom by successful wars, and it soon comprised the whole territory from Abdera in the south to the mouths of the Danube in the north, and from the Black Sea in the east to the sources of the Struma in the west.
  At the commencement  of the Peloponnesian war Sitalces entered into alliance with the Athenians, and in 429 BC he invaded Macedon (then ruled by Perdiccas II) with a vast army that included 150,000 warriors from independent Thracian tribes (such as the Dii) and Paeonian tribes (Agrianes, Laeaeans). He was obliged to retire through failure of provisions.
  Sitalces was killed in 424 by the Thracian Triballi. He was succeeded on the Odrysian throne by Seuthes.
  Sitalk Peak on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named for Sitalces.
caption: Odrysian kingdom & Environs,431 BC
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