The Mysterious Illyrians and Their Conflicts With Ancient Greeks and Romans

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The Mysterious Illyrians and Their Conflicts With Ancient Greeks and Romans

Illyrian Queen Teuta orders the assassination of Roman diplomats, by Augustyn Mirys (1700-1790). Public Domain The Illyrians can be traced back to the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, starting as a collection of tribes that were a dominant force in the Balkans. Along with the Greeks and the Thracians, the Illyrians were Indo-European peoples who arrived in the west Balkans. According to Herodotus, originally the Greeks appear to have used thi…