What is "dardania"

Dardania, Dardanian or Dardanians may refer to ancient peoples or locations:

• Dardanians (Trojan) Trojan allies
• Dardania (Troas), a city and a district of the Troad, in Asia Minor on the Hellespont (the modern Dardanelles)
• Dardania (Samothrace) Old name of Samothrace according to Pausanias
• Dardanean, an Assyrian people mentioned by Herodotus
• Dardani, an ancient tribe in the Southeastern Europe
• Dardania (Roman province), a Roman and Byzantine province in the Southeastern Europe

• Dardania, one of the major neighbourhoods of the city of Pristina
• Democratic League of Dardania (Lidhja Demokratike e Dardanisë), a political party in Kosovo

Dardania was a Roman province in the Central Balkans, initially an unofficial region in Moesia (87–284), then a province administratively part of the Diocese of Moesia (293–337). It was named after the ancient tribe of Dardani which inhabited the region prior to the Roman conquests in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC.