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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    (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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    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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    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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    Kotor (redirect from Municipality of Kotor)
    part of the Bay of Kotor. The city has a population of 13,347 and is the administrative center of Kotor Municipality. The old Mediterranean port of Kotor...
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    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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    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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    inhabitants, and it is the centre of Budva Municipality. The coastal area around Budva, called the Budva Riviera, is the center of Montenegrin tourism, known...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • religious beliefs and practices of the Illyrian peoples, a group of tribes who spoke the Illyrian languages and inhabited part of the western Balkan Peninsula...
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    Sica (category Culture of the Thracians)
    The sica is a short sword or large dagger of ancient Illyrians, Thracians, and Dacians, it was also used in Ancient Rome. It was originally depicted as...
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    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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    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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    Illyrians (category Ancient history of Slovenia)
    of the Taulantii—which existed for some time along with that of the Enchelei. The Taulantii—another people among the more anciently known groups of Illyrian...
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    The city of Epidamnos (Greek: Επίδαμνος) later the Roman Dyrrachium (Greek: Δυρράχιον; modern Durrës, Albania), was founded in 627 BC in Illyria by Greek...
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  • Thumbnail for Bellum Batonianum
    '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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    The Balkan campaign of Alexander the Great took place in 335 BC, against a number of rebellious vassals of the Macedonian kingdom. Alexander successfully...
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