Sitalces
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.
