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TAULANTII

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 452 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TAULANTII  , in

ancient geography, an Illyrian
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people in the neighbourhood of Epidamnus (Thuc. i . 24) . They were origin-ally powerful and
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independent, under their own kings . One of these was Glaucias, who fought against Alexander the
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Great, and placed Pyrrhus, the infant king of Epirus, whom he had refused to surrender to Cassander, upon the
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throne (Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 3) . Later the Taulantii fell under the sway of the kings of
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Illyria, and when the Romans were carrying on war against the Illyrian queen, Teuta, they were unimportant .

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