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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Illyria
an ancient country along the E coast of the Adriatic.

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1. (noun) Illyria
an uncertain region on the east shore of the Adriatic where an ancient Indo-European people once lived

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1. illyria
the name anciently given to a broad stretch of mountainous country of varying extent lying E. of the Adriatic Sea. The Illyrians were the last Balkan people to be civilised; becoming a Roman province 35 B.C., Illyria furnished several emperors, among them the notorious Diocletian. Constantine extended the province to include all the country S. of the Danube; at the division of the empire, Greece and Macedonia went to the East, the rest to the West; the name was revived by Napoleon, but has since been dropped.

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