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Ancient Illyrians

ILLYRIANS Indo-European tribes, who had already been settled in the west part of the Balkan Peninsula at the end of the 2nd millennium BC. The border areas with the Thracians were not exactly defined, but as a whole it is clear that the word includes the mixed ethnocultural community along the Axios (Vardar) river valley. […]

Ancient Illyria

ILLYRIA (ILLIRICUM) A region in the northwestern part of the Balkan Peninsula, where in 27 BC, Augustus (known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus) established the province of Illyricum. Later on Illyricum was divided into two parts: Lower (Dalmatia) and Upper (Pannonia). At the time of the emperor Constantine I the Great Illyricum comprised of Upper […]

Ancient Dacians

DACIANS This is the common name of a group of northern Thracian tribes, who lived between the Carpathian Mountains and the Danube River. The Dacians had common customs, way of life, language and culture with the Getae, but were indicated in the ancient writings not until the time of Caesar. The flowering period of the […]

Ancient Dacia

DACIA A Roman province formed after Emperor Trajan’s victory over the Dacians. Its borders were the Tisza River to the west, Carpathians to the north, Olt River to the east and Danube River to the south. It had a great military strategic and economic significance for the Roman administrative system on the Balkan Peninsula. The […]

King Cotys I

Cotys I is King of the Odrysian Kingdom in 383 BC to 359 BC.  In order to make his position stronger Cotys married his daughter to the Athenian general Iphicrates who soon became the second person in command after the king. Cotys starts to pursue an active foreign policy, which used renting Greek army and […]