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Illyricum

American  
[ih-leer-i-kuhm] / ɪˈlɪər ɪ kəm /

noun

  1. a Roman province in ancient Illyria.


Illyricum British  
/ ɪˈlɪərɪkəm /

noun

  1. a Roman province founded after 168 bc , based on the coastal area of Illyria

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Mutiny, of army in Illyricum and on Rhine, 227.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

The people of the old Illyricum have shown a marvellous consistency of character through all the changes that have affected the other nations of the Roman empire.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various

It may be doubted whether any civilised countries have passed through greater calamities than fell upon Gaul, Spain, Eastern and Western Illyricum, Africa, and Britain in the first half of the fifth century.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

Narses marched upon Italy by way of Illyricum and reached the Roman base at Ravenna.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

It is another convulsion equal in its range and perhaps still greater in its effects than that which made Teuton tribes the masters of Gaul and Spain and Britain, of Germany, of Italy, and Illyricum.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.

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