of Koritsa. Glaucias having failed to guard the Tsangon pass with sufficient care, enabled the Macedonians to proceed about their foraging. Glaucias now...
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Taulantii or Taulantians ('swallow-men'; Ancient Greek: Ταυλάντιοι, Taulantioi or Χελιδόνιοι, Chelidonioi; Latin: Taulantii) were an Illyrian people that...
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of the Empiric school who wrote commentaries on Hippocrates Glaucias of Macedon, general of Alexander Glaucias of Taulantii, Illyrian king Glaucias of...
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Pleuratus I (category Year of birth unknown)
ruled 356 – 335 BC) was an Illyrian king of the Illyrian tribe of the Taulantii. Pleuratus was the father of Glaucias. Pleuratus managed to defeat Philip II...
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Glaucias' army from the surrounding heights, preventing Cleitus from engaging with Glaucias. After a three-day truce, Alexander found the Taulantii camp...
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Monounios (category Year of birth unknown)
considered the successor of Glaucias of Taulantii, and probably his son. His realm also included the southern part of the later kingdom of Agron and Teuta. Monounios...
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Illyria (category Modern history of Slovenia)
also spoke of "Illyrians in the strict sense of the word"; Pomponius Mela (43 AD) the stricto sensu Illyrians lived north of the Taulantii and Enchele...
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(Tαύλας), one of the six sons of Illyrius, was the eponymous ancestor of the Taulantii. The Taulantii dominated at various times much of the plain between...
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Bardylis II (category Year of birth unknown)
apparently, also against the heirs of Glaucias. Bardylis II might have absorbed or inherited Glaucias' Taulantii State. Pyrrhus waged a war against the...
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Constantius Chlorus (category Equestrian commanders of vexillationes)
Constantius I, was a Roman emperor from 305 to 306. He was one of the four original members of the Tetrarchy established by Diocletian, first serving as caesar...
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Apollonia (Illyria) (redirect from Diocese of Apollonia)
territory of the Illyrian Taulantii, while according to Hammond (1997) and Stocker (2009) it was probably located on the border between the Taulantii (and/or...
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Salona (redirect from Sack of Salona)
Σάλωνα) was an ancient city and the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia. Salona is located in the modern town of Solin, next to Split, in Croatia. Salona...
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Kotor (redirect from Municipality of Kotor)
region of Montenegro. It is located in a secluded part of the Bay of Kotor. The city has a population of 13,347 and is the administrative center of Kotor...
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Dubrovnik (redirect from Old City of Dubrovnik)
prosperity of the city was historically based on maritime trade; as the capital of the maritime Republic of Ragusa, it achieved a high level of development...
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Decius (category Roman governors of Germania Inferior)
Roman emperor from 249 to 251. A distinguished politician during the reign of Philip the Arab, Decius was proclaimed emperor by his troops after putting...
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Labeatae, Pannonii, Parthini, Taulantii and others (see list of ancient tribes in Illyria). It is not known to what extent all of these tribes formed a homogeneous...
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Split, Croatia (redirect from City of Split)
city of Croatia after the capital Zagreb, the largest city in Dalmatia and the largest city on the Croatian coast. It lies on the eastern shore of the...
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Sirmium (section List of emperors)
Roman province of Pannonia, located on the Sava river, on the site of modern Sremska Mitrovica in the Vojvodina autonomous province of Serbia. First mentioned...
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or [bûdv̞a]) is a town in Coastal region of Montenegro. It has 19,218 inhabitants, and it is the centre of Budva Municipality. The coastal area around...
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'War of the Batos') was a military conflict fought in the Roman province of Illyricum in the 1st century AD, in which an alliance of native peoples of the...
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Ohrid (redirect from History of Ohrid)
recording a population of over 42,000 inhabitants as of 2002. Ohrid is known for once having 365 churches, one for each day of the year, and has been...
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Bardylis (category Year of birth uncertain)
only attested Illyrian king after Glaucias (Plut., Pyrr. 9.2) does not necessarily mean that he succeeded Glaucias on the throne, but rather that at that...
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Illyro-Roman Wars (section Revival of power)
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...
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Pileus (hat) (category Society of ancient Rome)
pileus" in the period of the Tetrarchy. As such during the period of the Emperor-soldiers the influences of the Illyrian provinces of the Roman Empire were...
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Ulcinj (redirect from Timeline of Ulcinj history)
p. 244. ISBN 9780631146711. "Names of individuals peoples may have been formed in a similar fashion, Taulantii from ‘swallow’ (cf. the Albanian tallandushe)...
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Trogir (redirect from Historic City of Trogir)
name of the neighbouring island of Bua comes from the Ancient Greek "voua" (herd of cattle). The sudden prosperity of Salona deprived Trogir of its importance...
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constituent tribe of the larger group of the Taulantii. They are first mentioned by Hecataeus of Miletus (550-476 BCE) in fragment 69 of Periodos Ges. Hecataeus...
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Triport, Vlorë (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024)
towns of the Illyrian Taulantii. Carl Patsch proposed the first location of Aulon in Treport being then transferred to the current location of Vlora,...
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The Kingdom of Dardania was a polity in the central Balkans in the region of Dardania during classical antiquity. It is named after the Dardani, a Paleo-Balkan...
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Teuta (redirect from Teuta of Issa)
Teuta (Illyrian: *Teutana, 'mistress of the people, queen'; Ancient Greek: Τεύτα; Latin: Teuta) was the queen regent of the Ardiaei tribe in Illyria, who...
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