(Illyria was an actual country of classical antiquity, whose territory included modern Albania and surroundings.)
In 1825 and 1826, he accompanied his father as an assistant on scientific expeditions to Italy, Illyria and Spain.
In fact, the very name of the genus is derived from Gentius, a king of Illyria who recognized the tonic properties of the plant.
Historically, the area was inhabited in prehistoric and early historic times (up to 4th century BC) by the Peucetii, of Illyrian origins, as testified by funerary findings.
She is a young high-society orphan from Philadelphia, the daughter of an eccentric wealthy archaeologist who disappeared while on an expedition to the Balkan state of Illyria.
Ad Turres (Illyria), a town of Illyria; now Tasovčići, near Čapljina, Bosnia and Hercegovina
After the Polish campaign, as a lieutenant, he was appointed acting aide to General Gardanne, in the embassy of France to Persia (1807–1808); aide to General Armand Charles Guilleminot on his return in 1809; he was secretary of the Committee on Delimitation of Illyria, was promoted to captain (1810), and transferred to the Spanish army.
Via Egnatia, an ancient Roman road in Illyria, Macedonia and Thrace
In 1929, Ravnik filmed a great national ceremony in Ljubljana on the 120th anniversary of the establishment of Illyrian Provinces, during which a monument was erected to Napoleon and Illyria at French Revolution Square.
The Japodian burial urn art was a unique form of art influenced to a degree by the Situla art of northern Illyria and Italy and by Greek art.
Thus Diocletian, who ruled from Nicomedia, promoted two faithful legions from the Illyricum (Legio V Iovia and VI Herculia), the area he was also descended from, to be the personal protectors of the Roman Emperors.
Langarus rendered Alexander important services during Alexander's expedition against the Illyrians and Taulantians shortly after his accession, when the Autariatae were preparing to attack him on his march.
In 2008, he along with a consortium of investors, Lachlan Murdoch, Illyria Pty Ltd; and Suresh Chellaram, an independent investor acquired the Jaipur IPL team and created the winning team of the inaugural IPL tournament ‘Rajasthan Royals’.
Subsequently, Charles and Mary Lamb's story was explored by Dorothy Parker and Ross Evans in their 1949 play The Coast of Illyria.
About 280 BC, according to Diodorus and Pausanias, they moved in three directions: toward Macedonia and Illyria, toward Greece, and toward Thrace.
Another theory, proposed by Jacobsohn and supported by others, is that the name derives from the attested Illyrian locality Palaeste, whose inhabitants would have been called Palaestīnī according to normal grammatical practice.
Early Illyrian inhabitants of the area performed rituals which were established by the Roman King Numa Pompilius, yearly on the 25th of April, when farmers would sacrifice a red goat, a red sheep, and offer wine to the goddess.
(We may assume that Valerian's mother, Salonina, would have been most unhappy: the death of her elder son, Valerian II, in Illyria under the tutelage of Ingenuus must have seemed to her to have confirmed her worst fears of this sort of arrangement).
The Habsburg Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca was established in 1754, it became part of the Austrian Kingdom of Illyria in 1816.
After the down fall of Illyrian kingdoms, Roman Settlers from the nearby town of Travunia (Today's; Trebinje), moved in and established homesteads and farms.