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Ancient tribe Illyrians - Ancestry and origin.

Where does the name Illyrians come from? The term Illyrians is understood differently and used inconsistently. In the period from the beginnings until the collapse of the Illyrian kingdom, the Illyrians showed themselves in varying alliances with tribes of common or similar origin and language. But only the southeastern regions of the Adriatic coast with hinterland can be rightly called Illyrian. The name of the Illyrians became the name for many neighbouring tribes that were only loosely connected with them. The Roman conquest of the Balkan Peninsula and the establishment of the province of Illyricum accelerated the indiscriminate use of the name Illyrians. The term "Illyria" was also used in late antiquity to describe the western Balkan peninsula. A central research problem is the question of an Illyrian tribe, because from the beginning the word "Illyrians" has been used by the ancient authors in the meaning of a tribal association. However, the Illyrians were hardly known in the Greek world, because the Greek colonization on the East Adriatic coast started only very limited or late. Because of their semi-legendary character, the Illyrians were well suited as a starting point for national identity building. Since the 1830s there have been efforts in the Balkan Peninsula to trace the origins of their own people back to ancient peoples. The proponents of the South Slavic national movements (especially among Croats) claimed that their people were descended from the Illyrians and propagated the cultural, ethnic and political unity of all South Slavs. Illyrian linguistic endeavours led to the emergence of the Serbo-Croatian language, Serbo-Croats and Yugoslavs respectively.