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Illyria (Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυρία, Illyría or Ἰλλυρίς, Illyrís) was an ancient region in the western part of today's Balkan Peninsula in modern-day Epirus, Greece. The people who lived there were called Illyrians and spoke the Illyrian languages . The Illyrians settled in the Balkans approximately around 2500 BC along with other ...
Sep 23, 2020 · The name "Illyrians" is a bit problematic. Originally, the Greeks appear to have used this name to indicate the people living to the northwest of Macedonia: tribes like the Enchelei (near Lake Ohrid) and the Chaones in what is now called Albania. note Later, this name was applied to all tribes living in the northwest: the Dalmatians and ...
Jul 16, 2018 · The ethnonym “Illyrians” relates to a group of people who inhabited the northwestern part of the Balkan peninsula. Some authors, like Charles A Frazee, believe that they settled this region around the 2nd millennia BC. The others propose a later date. But the common agreement is that proofs of continuity in the archaeological record exist ...
Illyro-Roman Wars. The Illyro-Roman Wars were a series of wars fought between the Roman Republic and the Illyrian kingdom of the Ardiaei. In the First Illyrian War, which lasted from 229 BC to 228 BC, [1] Rome's concern was that the trade across the Adriatic Sea increased after the First Punic War at a time when Ardiaei power increased under ...
The Kingdom of Illyria was a crown land of the Austrian Empire from 1816 to 1849, [1] the successor state of the Napoleonic Illyrian Provinces, which were reconquered by Austria in the War of the Sixth Coalition. It was established according to the Final Act of the Vienna Congress. Its administrative centre was in Ljubljana (officially German ...
Nov 21, 2023 · Illyria in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is a seemingly magical land, also off the coast of the Adriatic Sea, where nobles act like commoners and nothing is as it seems. In Shakespeare's Illyria ...
Mar 20, 2021 · The name “Illyria” was little used from late antiquity until the inclusion of the “Illyrian” provinces in the Napoleonic Empire in 1809 (Wilkes 1992, 4). In the decades following that, a movement, originally Croatian, called the “Illyrian Slavs” emerged among those objecting to the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the Habsburgs (Wilkes ...
