Austria-Hungary . Munich or Pilsener. CHAPTER XV THE ILLYRIAN STATE The name Illyria is a very ancient one, going backto centuries , when the lands bordering theAdriatic on the eastern side were thus boundaries of this state are uncertain andindeterminate, and varied greatly from time totime. Strabo, the ancient historian, mentions thecountry, saying that the coast-line was fertile andwell supplied with harbours but that the peoplewere barbarous and warlike. They are also de-scribed as tattooing their bodies and offering humansacrifices to their deities, but in a year given atvar
Austria-Hungary . Munich or Pilsener. CHAPTER XV THE ILLYRIAN STATE The name Illyria is a very ancient one, going backto centuries , when the lands bordering theAdriatic on the eastern side were thus boundaries of this state are uncertain andindeterminate, and varied greatly from time totime. Strabo, the ancient historian, mentions thecountry, saying that the coast-line was fertile andwell supplied with harbours but that the peoplewere barbarous and warlike. They are also de-scribed as tattooing their bodies and offering humansacrifices to their deities, but in a year given atvarious dates Illyria was made a Romanprovince and even became one of the four chiefdivisions of the Empire. The fine qualities of themen made the country a good recruiting-groundfor the Roman army, and many of the Illyriansrose to the purple, Claudius, Aurelian, Probus,Diocletian, and Maximian all being among thenumber. With the fall of the Empire the provincelost its hold and was ravaged by the Goths. Then 184. CLISSA : A STUDY IN GREY ROCK THE ILLYRIAN STATE 185 the Slavs and Huns began to occupy the northernland and push further and further south, and asthe small Slavonic states became consolidated, theyfell off from the central authority. Shakespeare, who had a taste for placing hisscenes in this part of the world, lays here the actionin Twelfth Night. In 1809 Buonaparte revivedthe ancient name, and included in it many of themore northern states such as Carinthia, Carniola,Istria, and Croatia. As a matter of fact this was astatesmanlike plan, as most of these peoples wereSlav, and the fact of being united under the ancientname roused enthusiasm among them. There wasa newspaper established called The Illyrian Tele-graph. The poet Vodnik wrote an ode called Risen Illyria, part of which is given in the trans-lation of Louis Legers History of Austria-Hungary : Napoleon has said : Awake ! Arise Illyria ! Shewakes, she sighs. Who calls me to the light ? Ohgreat hero, is it tho
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