Illyricum
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Key facts
- Capital
- Salona
- Historical era
- Antiquity
- Established
- 27 BC
- Dissolved during the reign of vespasian
- 69/79 AD
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Roman province
- Country
- Ancient Rome
- Capital
- Salona
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- Commons category
- Illyricum
- time period
- Roman Empire
- replaces
- Illyria
- replaced by
- Dalmatia
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Encyclopedic overview
Illyricum /ɪˈlɪrɪkəm/ was a Roman province created by Augustus in 27 BC to secure the northeastern Adriatic frontier. It combined Upper Illyricum (Dalmatia) and Lower Illyricum (Pannonia) under a governor resident at Salona, administering coastal and Danubian territories across what are now Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. The province incorporated the rugged Dinaric Alps, the eastern Adriatic islands, and the fertile Pannonian Plain, bringing Roman civil and military institutions to long-established Illyrian, Celtic, and Hellenized communities.
The term Illyrians was used to describe the inhabitants of the area as far back as the late 6th century BC by Hecataeus of Miletus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Illyricum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.