Description: For more than a thousand years before the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century AD, the lands between the Adriatic and the Danube, now Yugoslavia and Albania, were the home of peoples known to the ancient world as Illyrians. This book draws upon the considerable archaeological evidence that has become available since the Second World War to provide an account of the origins, culture and history of this mysterious people and their legacy. John Wilkes describes the geography of the Illyrian lands and surveys the region in the prehistoric, Greek, Roman and medieval periods.

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