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An uncertain region on the east shore of the Adriatic where an ancient Indo-European people once lived
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illyria
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In classical antiquity , Illyria ( or , , see also Illyricum ) was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by the Illyrians . The prehistory of Illyria and the Illyrians is known from archaeological evidence. The Romans conquered ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ancient country on the northeast shore of the Adriatic in modern Croatia; the name is of obscure origin.
Usage examples of illyria.
It is in a small part due to me, I think, that we have formal relations now with Illyria, with Kriti in Hellas.
And where we are strong, the coast of Illyria lies weak and vulnerable, garrisoned by Serenissiman soldiers.
If he was grateful to the legionaries of Sirmium for raising him to the purple it did not prevent him from executing the men who had been the first to attack Probus, an act which apparently did him no harm in the eyes of the survivors, for that autumn they followed him willingly into battle against a horde of Sarmatians who had come down upon Illyria, and gained a resounding victory.
I heard that Crispus had been arrested and taken to the town of Pola, which is in Illyria at the head of the Adriatic sea.
Then he led his troops into Illyria and the north, conquering their cities and stealing their mines.
How does that1 compare with the King who conquered Thrace, Illyria, the Chalcidice, Thessaly, Paionia - and crushed the combined armies of Athens and Thebes?
Behind them came ambassadors from the city states of Athens, Corinth, Thebes and even Sparta, plus representatives from Boeotia, Pherae, Euboea, Thrace, Illyria and Paionia.
The early days were the easiest to recall: the fall of Spartan power, the defeat of Illyria, Paionia and Thrace.
The commander of the Army of Illyria had only been made privy to the great secret a month before.
The Ban of Illyria immediately appointed a Commander and gave him a great deal of autonomy.
That strikes me as one hell of a big step to take in response to a few UFO phenomena, especially as Illyria seems quite ready to pick up the gauntlet.
Babylon outweighed Illyria and Lapithia together, and these three major powers about balanced the League as a whole, if not in wealth and firepower then in population and difficulty of conquest.
Skiffs were still being sighted all over the place, and here and there were being chased by New Babylonian jet fighters or zapped by New Babylonian space-based plasma cannon, to the evident annoyance of every other power from Illyria to Doria.
With burnisht Neck of verdant Gold, erect Amidst his circling Spires, that on the grass Floted redundant: pleasing was his shape, And lovely, never since of Serpent kind Lovelier, not those that in ILLYRIA chang'd HERMIONE and CADMUS, or the God In EPIDAURUS.
The Ministry of Defense strongly rebuts initial suggestions in New Babylonian reports that Illyrian forces are responsible for the explosion and repeats its longstanding categoric assurance that Illyria does not possess, and does not seek to acquire, nuclear weapons and supports the monopoly of such weapons by New Babylon’s Space Defense Force.