Bessi

The Better ( also Bessen, Latin Bessi, Bulgarian Беси ) were a people in northeastern Thrace, in the Thasitischen Peraea and on Haemus, with the main town Uskudama.

The first mentioned by Herodotus Better alleged under their own princes long as their freedom until they were subjected to 72 BC by the Romans under Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus. Several times had to Roman generals fight their resistance in the following decades: 59 BC Gaius Octavius ​​in 44 BC, Marcus Junius Brutus, Marcus Licinius Crassus in 29 BC, 14-12 Lucius Calpurnius Piso BC. More uprisings there were in the 1st century AD (21 and 68 AD)

The Bishop Nikita Remesianski ( Bulg Епископ Никета Ремесиански ) has Christianized the Thracian tribe of warlike better.