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- Description : http://www.illyrians.org/coalbania....(more)html was beginning to nourish the audacious project of subjugating the whole world to her laws. Rome undertook her Illyrian campaign with the pretext of defending her commerce and navigation in the Adriatic, which according to her, were seriously threatened by Illyrian pirates. And so Rome started preparation for war. The hostilities began in 229 BC and continued with few interruptions until 168 BC. Having taken possession of Corcyra after the treachery of Demetrios of Pharaos, the commandant of the island, and having captured Apollonia and Dyrrachium, by means of a powerful fleet of 200 ships, the Romans rallied to their cause the leaders of two most important tribes of southern Illyria, the Parthinians and Atintanians. Seeing the situation turn decidedly to her disadvantage, Queen Teuta made peace with Rome on very heavy conditions. (less)
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