Petrit Latifi

In Edward Robinsons “The Biblical Repository”, Volume 4, published 1834, we can read:

“The ancient Illyrians, in other words, the inhabitants of the Roman province of Illyricum, were not Slavs, but a people closely related to the ancient Thracians, the ancestors of the present-day Albanians (See Schaffarik, p. 23, n. 2.). Illyricum Magnum (Greater Illyricum), in the 4th century, contained almost all the Roman provinces of Eastern Europe.

Napoleon, preferring to revive the names and titles of the Roman Empire, called the territory given to him by Austria in 1809, – i.e. Carniola, and all the territory between the Adriatic, the Sava, and the Ottoman Empire, – The Illyrian Provinces and their inhabitants, the Illyrians. In 1815, a new kingdom of Illyria was founded as an Austrian province, including Carniola, the Carinental church, and was treated as a separate branch.”

Swedish publication from 1811 mentioning Illyris Græca and Magnum Illyricum:

“This country has in recent times received several expansions and restrictions. First, the King of Macedonia conquered the bordering part as far as the stream Drinius now called Drino, then it was divided into 2 parts Illyris Græca which lay east of Drino and Illyris Barbara which lay north of Drino as far as Istria, from which in turn the Larnes Japydia Liburnia and Dalmatia arose.

Illyris Græca was then incorporated with Macedonia and had the same fate with the same Kingdom. It constitutes the present-day landscape of Albani and Illyris Barbara had for a time its own Kings. But the piracy of this nation was set up by the Romans against the few who found themselves compelled to seize its land.

The Romans cultivated this land extensively and under the later Greeks it became one of the principal provinces of the Kingdom. After the fourth century the country was mentioned under the name of Illyricum Magnum, which included almost all the Roman lands in Europe located around Italy. Illyricum in this sense was one of the 4 large provinces into which Constantine divided the Empire. Dalmatia, Noricum, Pannonia and Savia belonged to Illyricum Occidentale. Dacia, Meuse, Macedonia and Thrace were counted as part of Illyricum Orientale.”¹

References

The Biblical Repository, Volume 4. Edward Robinson Publisher: Andover: Gould and Newman,; New York: Leavitt, Lord and Co., 1834

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