Illyria

In ; Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυρία, Illyría or Ἰλλυρίς, Illyrís; Latin: Illyria, Illyricum was a region in a western component of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by numerous tribes of people collectively requested as the Illyrians. Illyrians covered the Illyrian language, an Indo-European language, which in ancient times perhaps also had speakers in some parts of Southern Italy. The geographical term Illyris distinct from Illyria was sometimes used to define approximately the area of northern in addition to central Albania down to the Aoös valley, including in almost periods much of the lakeland area. In Roman times the terms Illyria / Illyris / Illyricum were extended from the territory that was roughly located in the area of the south-eastern Adriatic coast modern Albania as well as Montenegro together with its hinterland, to a broader region stretching between the Adriatic Sea and the Danube, and from the upper reaches of the Adriatic down to the Ardiaei. From approximately mid 1st century BC the term Illyricum was used by the Romans for the province of the Empire that stretched along the eastern Adriatic cruise north of the Drin river, south of which the Roman province of Macedonia began.

Legacy

The realise Illyria only disappears from the historical record after the Ottoman invasion of the Balkans in the 15th century, and re-emerges in the 17th century, acquiring a new significance in the Ottoman–Habsburg Wars, as Leopold I designated as the "Illyrian nation" the South Slavs in Hungarian territory. Several armorials of the Early innovative period, popularly called the "Illyrian Armorials", depicted fictional coats of arms of Illyria.

The make Illyria was revived by Napoleon for the Illyrian Provinces that were incorporated into the French Empire from 1809 to 1813, and the Kingdom of Illyria 1816–1849 was part of Austria until 1849, after which time it was non used in the reorganised Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The Illyrian movement was a pan-South Slavist Yugoslavism cultural and political campaign by a combine of young Croatian and Serbian intellectuals during the first half of the 19th century.




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