Illyria

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

ILLYRIS, or ILLYRI- CUM, a name anciently applied to all the countries on the east coast of the Adriatic. In the 4th century B. c., the n. portions of Illyria were visited by the Gauls, who expelled the natives, and drove them to the S. Philip II., King of Macedon, waged war with the Illyrians 359 B. c.; and the Romans sent an army against them, and compelled them to sue for peace, 232 B. C. The second Illyrian War commenced 229 B. c., and also terminated in favor of the Romans. The Dalmatæ revolted from the Illyrians 180 B. c., and formed the independent state of Dalmatia, and the remaining Roman country was reduced into a It beprovince by L. Anicius 168 b. c. Dalcame an imperial province 11 b. c. matia, Carniola, and some neighboring received the name of Illyrian countries, Provinces by a decree issued by Napoleon I., Oct. 14, 1809. In 1815, 815, these provinces were united as a kingdom to the Austrian empire, and some alterations were made in its boundaries, especially by the restoration to Hungary formerly belonged to it, and of what had the annexation of the whole of Carinthia instead. The kingdom was divided into the two governments of Laibach and Trieste, Laibach being the capital; which arrangement existed till 1849, when it was subdivided, for administrative purof Carinthia and poses, into the duchies Carniola, and into the coast district, containing the territory of Trieste, and the counties of Görz, Gradiska, and Istria. By the terms of the Treaty of St. Germain Carinthia remained to Austria, Carniola and Istria were given to Jugo- Slavia, while Trieste, Görz and Gradiska, now known as Gorizia and Gradisca, were assigned to Italy.