Mitchell also has a big focus on seemingly lackluster gas fields in the Thrace basin in the northwest of Turkey.

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Thassos is in the northern Aegean Sea, near the coast of Thrace.

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The libretto, an 18th- century "education-of-a-tyrant" plot, features Tiridate, king of Thrace, who is obsessed with his sister-in-law, Zenobia, and wages indiscriminate war to get her.

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When approaching from Turkey the earthy eastern plains of Thrace are first to emerge, with their vivid patches of sunflowers, rolling fields of wheat and storks' nests dotting the telephone poles.

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