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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.
Illyricum / ɪ ˈ l ɪ r ɪ k ə m / 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.
This is a list of settlements in Illyria founded by Illyrians (southern Illyrians, Dardanians, Pannonians), Liburni, Ancient Greeks and the Roman Empire. A number of cities in Illyria and later Illyricum were built on the sites or close to the sites of pre-existing Illyrian settlements, though that was not always the case.
Illyria, a region in Southeastern Europe in classical antiquity, inhabited by ancient Illyrians; Illyricum (Roman province), a Roman province that existed between 27 BC and 69/79 AD; Diocese of Illyricum, a diocese of the Late Roman Empire; Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum, one of four praetorian prefectures into which the Late Roman Empire ...
The Illyrian kingdom was composed of small areas within the region of Illyria. Only the Romans ruled the entire region. The internal organization of the south Illyrian kingdom points to imitation of their neighbouring Greek kingdoms and influence from the Greek and Hellenistic world in the growth of their urban centres. [29]
Written studies about the Illyrians and Illyria, their history and cultures, go back to classical antiquity with Greco-Roman historiography and accounts, possibly beginning with Hesiod, Hecataeus and Herodotus and best known through such authors as Thucydides, Aristotle, Polybius, [4] Velleius Paterculus [5] Suetonius, [6] Pausanias, Appian, [7] Cassius Dio, [8] Diodorus Siculus, [9] Julius ...
The region he was crossing was thickly forested and mountainous, with rare clearings, while the few Illyrian fortresses were perched on hilltops. The rest of the Iapodes returned, therefore, to take refuge in the forests, abandoning their main city, whose name was Terponus, [ 43 ] which Octavian occupied shortly afterwards but did not burn it ...
The history of the Illyrians spans from the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC up to the 1st century AD in the region of Illyria and in southern Italy where the Iapygian civilization flourished. It concerns the armed conflicts of the Illyrian tribes and their kingdoms in the Balkans in Italy as well as pirate activity in Mediterranean .