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The earliest known Illyrian king – Bardylis – emerged in southern Illyria around 400 BC, most likely centered in Dassaretis, a region along Lake Ohrid and east to the Prespa Lakes, located on the border between Macedon and Epirus. He aimed to make Illyria a regional power interfering with Macedon.
The early Athenian tradition, followed by the 3rd century BC Parian Chronicle, made Cecrops, a mythical half-man half-serpent, the first king of Athens. [5] The dates for the following kings were conjectured centuries later, by historians of the Hellenistic era who tried to backdate events by cross-referencing earlier sources such as the Parian Chronicle.
Legally and formally, however, the Illyrian Kingdom continued to exist; until 1915, the emperor's patents contained the title of King of Illyria, and with the reform of October 10, 1915, the Illyrian coat of arms quietly disappeared from Austrian national heraldry. [4] [5] The Kingdom of Illyria was officially established on August 3, 1816. [6]
356 BC. Lycceius joins the anti-Macedonian coalition led by Athens which includes Grabos; 356 BC. Parmenio surprises Grabos with a defeat before he is able to converge with his allies in Athens and Thrace and Paeonia; 352 BC. Agrianes become allies of Philip II; 344 BC. Caeria loses her life in a battle against Cynane and her army is defeated ...
Glaucias: king of Taulantii. He aided Cleitus at the Battle of Pelion in 335 BC, raised Pyrrhus of Epirus and was involved in other events in southern Illyria in the late 4th century BC. [27] Monunius I, (r. 290–270 BC): reigned during the Gallic invasions of 279 BC. He minted his own silver staters in Dyrrhachion. [28]
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.
Bardylis or Bardyllis (/ b ɑːr ˈ d ɪ l ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Βάρδυλις; c. 448 –358 BC) was an Illyrian king, and the founder of the first attested Illyrian dynasty. [1] During his reign, Bardylis aimed to make Illyria a regional power interfering with Macedon.
The territory the Illyrians inhabited came to be known as Illyria to later Greek and Roman authors, who identified a territory that corresponds to most of Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, much of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, western and central Serbia and some parts of Slovenia between the Adriatic Sea in the west, the Drava river in the ...