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HISTORY OF GREECE. PART II. CONTINUATION OF HISTORICAL GREECE. CHAPTER XXV. ILLYRIANS, MACEDONIANS, P^EONIANS. NORTHWARD of the tribes called Epirotic lay those more nu- merous and widely extended tribes who bore the general name of Illyrians ; bounded on the west by the Adriatic, on the east by the mountain-range of Skardus, the northern continuation of Pin- dus, and thus covering what is now called Middle and Upper Al- bania, together with the more northerly mountains of Montenegro, Herzegovina, and Bosnia. Their limits to the north and north-east cannot be assigned, but the Dardani and Autariatae must have reached to the north-east of Skardus and even east of the Ser- vian plain of Kossovo ; while along the Adriatic coast, Skylax extends the race so far northward as to include Dalmatia, treating the Liburnians and Istrians beyond them as not Illyrian : yet Ap- pian and others consider the Liburnians and Istrians as Illyrian, and Herodotus even includes under that name the Eneti, or Ven- eti, at the extremity of the Adriatic gulf. 1 The Bulini, accord- 1 Herodot. i, 196 ; Skylax, c. 19-27; Appian, Hlyric. c. 2, 4, 8. The geography of the countries occupied in ancient times by the Illyri- ans, Macedonians, Pseonians, Thracians, etc., and now possessed by a great diversity of races, among whom the Turks and Albanians retain the prim- VOL. IV. 1 IOC.