Anaxarchus was born at Abdera in Thrace.

Abdera () was a city-state on the coast of Thrace 17 km east-northeast of the mouth of the Nestos, and almost opposite Thasos.

The air of Abdera was proverbial in Athens as causing stupidity, but the city counted among its citizens the philosophers Democritus, Protagoras and Anaxarchus, and historian and philosopher Hecataeus of Abdera.

The municipality Abdera was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

Heracles founded the city of Abdera in Thrace in his memory, where he was honored with athletic games.

The first explicitly materialistic system was formed by Leucippus ( 5th century BCE ) and his pupil Democritus of Abdera ( 460-370 BCE ) from Thrace.

* Democritus was a Greek philosopher and mathematician from Abdera, Thrace ( c. 460 – 370 BC.

* Protagoras was a Greek philosopher from Abdera, Thrace ( c. 490 – 420 BC.

In Greek mythology Abderus or Abderos () was a divine hero, reputed a son of Hermes by some accounts, and eponym of Abdera, Thrace.

Around the time that The Clouds was produced, Democritus at Abdera was developing an atomistic theory of the cosmos and Hippocrates at Cos was establishing an empirical and science-like approach to medicine.

A remarkable statement mentioned by Diogenes Laertius ( c. 250 AD ) is the earliest ( or at least one of the earliest ) references about plausible centenarian longevity given by a scientist, the astronomer Hipparchus of Nicea ( c. 185 – c. 120 BC ), who, according to the doxographer, was assured that the philosopher Democritus of Abdera ( c. 470 / 460 – c. 370 / 360 BC ) lived 109 years.

Hecataeus of Abdera and others believed Hyperborea was Britain ( see below ).

Hyperborea was identified with Britain first by Hecataeus of Abdera in the 4th century BC, as in a preserved fragment by Diodorus Siculus:

* Democritus: he was from the village Abdera which is about 20km from Xanthi

* Protagoras: he was from the village Abdera

* Hecateus: he was from the village Abdera

Among the ancient Greeks Boeotia was the home of fools ; among the Thracians, Abdera ; among the ancient Jews, Nazareth ; among modern Jews, Chełm ; among the ancient Asiatics, Phrygia.

Hecataeus of Abdera ( or of Teos ) was a Greek historian and sceptic philosopher who flourished in the 4th century BC.

Two Greek philosophers, Leucippus ( first half of the 5th century BC ) and Democritus of Abdera ( lived about 410 BC ) came up with the notion that there were two real entities: atoms, which were small indivisible particles of matter, and the void, which was the empty space in which matter was located.

Meanwhile, the Thracian city of Abdera is sacked by Roman and Pergamese troops.

* The Thracian city of Abdera is sacked by the Triballi.

Heracles founded the city of Abdera near Abderus's tomb, where agones ( Greek: ), athletic games consisting of boxing, pancratium and wrestling were held in his honor ( but chariot races were banned in respect of how he died ).

In 376 BC, a large band of Triballi under King Hales crossed Mount Haemus and advanced as far as Abdera ; they had backing from Maroneia and were preparing to besiege the city, when Chabrias appeared off the coast with the Athenian fleet and organized a reconciliation.

There they founded a colony at Abdera, rather than remaining behind to surrender their city to Harpagus, one of Cyrus the Great's generals.

The earliest non-Biblical account of the Exodus is in the writings of the Greek author Hecataeus of Abdera: the Egyptians blame a plague on foreigners and expel them from the country, whereupon Moses, their leader, takes them to Canaan, where he founds the city of Jerusalem.

Hecataetus of Abdera, a Greek historian of the early third century BCE, wrote that Moses " in remembrance of the exile of his people, instituted for them a misanthropic and inhospitable way of life.

Location of Abdera and its two successive metropolis es, Clazomenae and Teos.

But its prosperity dates from 544 BC, when the majority of the people of Teos ( including the poet Anacreon ) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke ( Herodotus i. 168 ).

* Abdera, Thrace ( in Ancient Greece a synonym for Gotham )

The composite term Osiris-Dionysus is found around the start of the first century BC, for example in Aegyptiaca by Hecateus of Abdera, and in works by Leon of Pella.

The crater is named for the Greek sophist Protagoras of Abdera.

Hecateaus of Abdera also wrote that the Hyperboreans had a ' circular temple ' on their island, and some scholars have identified this with Stonehenge.

Six classical Greek authors also came to identify these mythical people at the back of the North Wind with their Celtic neighbours in the north: Antimachus of Colophon, Protarchus, Heraclides Ponticus, Hecataeus of Abdera, Apollonius of Rhodes and Posidonius of Apamea.

Abdera is a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church in the province of Rhodope on the southern coast of Thrace, now called Bouloustra.

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: " Abdera, Thrace, Greece "

Prominent Sophists include Protagoras ( 490-420 BCE ) from Abdera in Thrace, Gorgias ( 487-376 BCE ) from Leontini in Sicily, Hippias ( 485-415 BCE ) from Elis in the Peloponnesos, and Prodicus ( 465-390 BCE ) from the island of Ceos.

* 650 BC: The town of Abdera in Thrace is founded by colonists from Clazomenae.

* 544 BC — People of Teos migrate to Abdera, Thrace to escape the yoke of Persia.

* 650 BC — The town of Abdera in Thrace is founded by colonists from Clazomenae.

* Philip II has Abdera in Thrace sacked.

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 Black Sea in the east to the sources of the Struma in the west.