An Indo-European people of the western Balkans, constituting a diverse array of tribes occupying the eastern Adriatic hinterland before any centralised Illyrian polity emerged.
Progressively subjugated by Rome through three Illyrian Wars (229–168 BCE), ending with the defeat and capture of the last Illyrian king Gentius at Scodra in 168 BCE, after which Illyria became a Roman province.
The standard English-language history of the Illyrians covering their tribal organisation, archaeology, and interactions with Greek and Roman worlds.
Pan-European Bronze Age survey covering the western Balkans, providing the regional/temporal background to the proto-Illyrian Iron Age.