At the height of their power, the illyrian frontiers extended from the danube river southward to the adriatic sea and from there eastward to the šar. The illyrians were ancient tribes in the balkans, notable in history from the 6th century bce For three years, from 6 to 9 a.d., they fought fiercely in the wooded and lonely karst in dalmatia and bosnia, but at last the illyrians and remaining celts capitulated to a strange and cold.
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To the immediate south, it likewise spread over the alps into italy, where the invading illyrians split into a number of local tribal groups, including the veneti.
This interactive map traces the journey of the ancient illyrians across the western balkans, from albania to croatia, bosnia and herzegovina, montenegro, kosovo, and north macedonia.
Greek cities were established on the coast in the 6th cent B.c., but they did not flourish, and generally the greeks left the illyrians alone Philip ii of macedon and later philip v warred against them, but without permanent results. In its beginnings, the process of forming the illyrian ethnos was associated with the creation of patriarchal tribal communities
In the middle bronze age, economic and social differentiation began among the illyrians, while in the late bronze age this differentiation took on wider proportions.
