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Illyria is the setting for Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains Sales. Lloyd Alexander's The Illyrian Adventure is set in Illyria in 1872. [31] John Hawkes' 1970 novel The Blood Oranges is set in a fictionalized Illyria. [32] There is a fictional Illyria with its inhabitants, winged fae, in the fantasy series A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas.
The Illyrians ( Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυριοί, Illyrioi; Latin: Illyrii) were a group of Indo-European-speaking people who inhabited the western Balkan Peninsula in ancient times. They constituted one of the three main Paleo-Balkan populations, along with the Thracians and Greeks . The territory the Illyrians inhabited came to be known as ...
Proposed Illyrian vocabulary. This article contains information about Illyrian vocabulary. No Illyrian texts survive, so sources for identifying Illyrian words have been identified by Hans Krahe [ 1] as being of four kinds: inscriptions, glosses of Illyrian words in classical texts, names—including proper names (mostly inscribed on tombstones ...
Illyricum / ɪˈlɪrɪkəm / was a Roman province that existed from 27 BC to sometime during the reign of Vespasian (69–79 AD). The province comprised Illyria/Dalmatia in the south and Pannonia in the north. Illyria included the area along the east coast of the Adriatic Sea and its inland mountains, eventually being named Dalmatia.
Glasinac-Mati culture. The Culture of ancient Illyria or Illyrian culture begins to be distinguished by increasingly clear features during the Middle Bronze Age and especially at the end of the Late Bronze Age. Ceramics as a typical element is characterized by the extensive use of shapes with two handles protruding from the edge as well as ...
Illyrian tribes in the 7th–4th centuries BCE. This is a list of ancient tribes in the ancient territory of Illyria (Greek: Ἰλλυρία; Latin: Illyria).The name Illyrians seems to be the name of a single Illyrian tribe that was the first to come into contact with the ancient Greeks, causing the name Illyrians to be applied to all people of similar language and customs. [1]
Illyro-Roman Wars. The Illyro-Roman Wars were a series of wars fought between the Roman Republic and the Illyrian kingdom under the Ardiaei and Labeatae. 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 ...
Illyrian Provinces. The Illyrian Provinces[ note 1] were an autonomous province of France during the First French Empire that existed under Napoleonic Rule from 1809 to 1814. [ 1] The province encompassed large parts of modern Italy and Croatia, extending their reach further east through Slovenia, Montenegro, and Austria.