Rhodope

UPDATE: In a comment, Mariana from History of Greek Food pointed out that Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) is “found in the higher elevations of the Rhodope Mountains” where the shoots and leaves are eaten boiled.

Archive 2008-05-01 Laurie Constantino 2008

UPDATE: In a comment, Mariana from History of Greek Food pointed out that Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) is “found in the higher elevations of the Rhodope Mountains” where the shoots and leaves are eaten boiled.

How to Harvest Fireweed Shoots with Recipe for Fireweed Shoot Omelet Laurie Constantino 2008

Another possibility is the Odrysians, a people of southeastern Thrace, located between the Aegean Sea and the Rhodope Mountains.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Another possibility is the Odrysians, a people of southeastern Thrace, located between the Aegean Sea and the Rhodope Mountains.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Another possibility is the Odrysians, a people of southeastern Thrace, located between the Aegean Sea and the Rhodope Mountains.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Another possibility is the Odrysians, a people of southeastern Thrace, located between the Aegean Sea and the Rhodope Mountains.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

In the future the Park with the western Rhodope mountains could become part of a trans-boundary reserve with Greece, Macedonia and Albania, a plan supported by OECD and Council of Europe funding.

Pirin National Park, Bulgaria 2008

Ianeira, Acaste and Admete and Rhodope and Pluto and charming

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

The ecoregion does not include the upland vegetation of the Rhodope Mountains (Rhodope montane mixed forests ecoregion) or the sub-Mediterranean and meso-supra-Mediterranean downy oak forests and meso - to thermo-Mediterranean pine forests to the south of the Rhodopes (part of the Aegean & West Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forest ecoregion).

Balkan mixed forests 2007

The most warlike of the infantry were the independent swordsmen who came down from Rhodope; the rest of the mixed multitude that followed him being chiefly formidable by their numbers.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005