TAULANTII
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V26,
Page 452
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
TAULANTII
, in ancient geography, an Illyrian people in the neighbourhood of Epidamnus (Thuc. i
.
24)
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They were origin-ally powerful and independent, under their own kings
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One of these was Glaucias, who fought against Alexander the Great, and placed Pyrrhus, the infant See also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Epirus, whom he had refused to surrender to Cassander, upon the throne ( Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 3)
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Later the Taulantii fell under the sway of the kings of Illyria, and when the Romans were carrying on war against the Illyrian queen, Teuta, they were unimportant
.
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