Liburnia

Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy

Liburnia (Ancient Greek: Λιβουρνία)[1] in ancient geography was the land of the Liburnians, a region along the northeastern Adriatic coast in Europe, in modern Croatia, whose borders shifted according to the extent of the Liburnian dominance at a given time between 11th and 1st century BC. Domination of the Liburnian thalassocracy in the Adriatic Sea was confirmed by several Antique writers,[2][3] but the archeologists have defined a region of their material culture more precisely in northern Dalmatia, eastern Istria, and Kvarner.

  1. ^ Procopius, History of the Wars, §5.15
  2. ^ M. Fluss, Liburni, PWRE, Suppl. Bd. V, 582
  3. ^ M. Suić, Granice Liburnije kroz stoljeća, Radovi inst. JAZU, 2, Zadar 1955, 273