List of ancient cities in Illyria

Distribution of cities in antiquity in the border of southern Illyria with Greeks and Thracians

This is a list of ancient cities in Illyria, towns, villages, and fortresses by Illyrians, Veneti, Liburni, Romans, Celts, Thracians, Dacians or Greeks located in or near Illyrian lands. 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. Some settlements may have a double entry, e.g., Greek Pola and Roman Pietas Julia, and some toponyms are reconstructed.

Illyrian settlements

Dalmatian

Liburnian

Liburnia in the age of the Roman conquest

Venetic

Greek cities

Greek cities and Emporia in the Adriatic
Tribes and cities in southern Illyris and Epirus

Celtic settlements

Roman cities

Roman provinces, Illyricum, Dalmatia and Pannonia on the left side of the map

Roman Macedon

A small part of the Roman province of Macedonia included Illyria Graeca, or Epirus Nova.

Roman Italia

A very small part of the province of Italia included Istria.

Roman Pannonia

Roman Dalmatia

Roman Dardania

Dacian

Thracian

See also

References

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  3. ↑ The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 3, Part 1: The Prehistory of the Balkans, the Middle East and the Aegean World, Tenth to Eighth Centuries BC by John Boardman, I. E. S. Edwards, N. G. L. Hammond, and E. Sollberger, 1982, page 629, "... Partho, ancestress of the Parthini who held the middle and upper valley of the Shkumbi."
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  6. ↑ In An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis by Mogens Herman, ISBN 0-19-814099-1, 2004, "As a long-distance trading community, Aigina was not an active coloniser, but colonised Kydonia (no. 968) in 519, Adria (no. 75) c.C61, and Damastion in Illyria after 431 (Strabo 8.6.16)."
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  12. ↑ Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, ISBN 0-631-19807-5, page 133, "... fortress has remained in use until modern times. Similarly few traces are now to be seen of Illyrian defences at Meteon (Medun), Olcinium (Ulcinj) and Rhizon ..."
  13. ↑ Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, p. 120, ISBN 0-631-19807-5, page 177, "... who appears to have ruled after 168 Bc at Queen Teuta's old stronghold Rhizon (Risan). His silver issues are rare, but bronze coins, without the royal title, occur on Hvar, both ..."
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  17. ↑ Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, ISBN 0-631-19807-5, page 172, "... his ally. In midwinter 170/169 BC, Perseus launched a successful raid on the Illyrian Penestae and captured their chief town Uscana..."
  18. ↑ The classical gazetteer: a dictionary of ancient geography, sacred and profane by William Hazlitt, 1851, "Epicaria a town of the Cavii in Illyria."
  19. 1 2 The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 8: Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 BC by A. E. Astin, ISBN 0-521-23448-4, 1990, page 92
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  21. ↑ Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, ISBN 0-631-19807-5, page 197, "... Illyricum 197 Promona, where the war-leader Verzo had stationed most of his army of 12,000 men. After some fighting the citadel was taken, ..."
  22. 1 2 Excavations at Salona, Yugoslavia, 1969–1972: conducted for the Department of Classics, Douglass College, Rutg, by Christoph W. Clairmont, 1975, ISBN 0-8155-5040-5, page 4, "If we are correct in our interpretation of the earliest finds from Salona, the emporion, even if very small, was a settlement in a strategic position..."
  23. 1 2 3 Dalmatia by J. J. Wilkes, 1969, page 227, "In this area were three small communities of the Delmatae Pituntium(Podstrana) Nareste(Jenesice) and Oneum (Omis)..."
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  26. 1 2 The Illyrians (The Peoples of Europe) by John Wilkes, 1996, page 190
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  29. ↑ Dalmatia by J. J. Wilkes, 1969, page 195, "At Flavona the native population was well established and stood up better to the effects of italian settlement in the first century..."
  30. ↑ Dalmatia by J. J. Wilkes, 1969, page 216, "Little is known about Sidrona the city of the Sidrini."
  31. ↑ Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, ISBN 0-631-19807-5, page 183, "We may begin with the Venetic peoples, Veneti, Carni, Histri and Liburni, whose language set them apart from the rest of the Illyrians."
  32. ↑ Pliny's Natural History, Book 3,(C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historiæ, Liber III),CHAP. 23. (19.) – ISTRIA, ITS PEOPLE AND LOCALITY. "Ateste belonging to the Veneti"
  33. 1 2 3 4 Pliny's Natural History, Book 3,(C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historiæ, Liber III),CHAP. 23. (19.) – ISTRIA, ITS PEOPLE AND LOCALITY."In this district there have disappeared—upon the coast—Iramene, Pellaon, and Palsatium, Atina and Cælina belonging to the Veneti "
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  44. ↑ "...Greek and Roman oared warships..."
  45. ↑ OxfordJournal, "There had been an emporion or trading post on the site from the 2nd century BC, Pola, now Pietas Julia..."
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  51. ↑ Austria: Her People & Their Homelands by James Baker, "... dates back to the sixth century B.C., when the Greeks founded here Epidaurus..."
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  55. 1 2 Pliny's Natural History, Book 3,(C. Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historiæ, Liber III),CHAP. 23. (19.) – ISTRIA, ITS PEOPLE AND LOCALITY."The towns of Istria with the rights of Roman citizens are Ægida4, Parentium, and the colony of Pola, now Pietas Julia, formerly founded by the Colchians..."
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