Dassaretii

The Dassaretii (alternatively, Dassaretes, Dassaretae, Dassaretai, Dassaretioi or Dassareti) (Ancient Greek: Δασσαρῆται, Δασσαρήτιοι, Latin: Dassaretae, Dassaretii) were an ancient Illyrian tribe that lived in the inlands of southern Illyria (modern Albania and North Macedonia).[1] Their territory included the entire region between the rivers Asamus and Eordaicus (whose union forms the Apsus), the plateau of Korça locked by the fortress of Pelion and, towards the north it extended to Lake Lychnidus up to the Black Drin. They were directly in contact with the regions of Orestis and Lynkestis of Upper Macedonia.[2] Their chief city was Lychnidos, located on the edge of the omonym lake.[3] One of the most important settlements in their territory was established at Selcë e Poshtme near the western shore of Lake Lychnidus, where the Illyrian Royal Tombs were built.[4] The Dassaretii were one of the most prominent Illyrian tribes of southern Illyria,[5][6] and one of the tribes forming the ancient Illyrian kingdom that was established in this region.[7] According to a number of modern scholars the dynasty of Bardylis, which is the first attested Illyrian dynasty, was Dassaretan.[8] The Dassaretii minted coins in Hellenistic times, with the inscription of the ethnicon ΔΑΣΣΑΡΗΤΙΩΝ (DASSARETION).[9]

This article is about the ancient Illyrian tribe. For the ancient Greek tribe "Dassaretae", see Dassaretae.

Name

The tribal name Dassaret- is of Illyrian origin.[10][11][12] The name of the tribe stems from Illyrian *daksa/dassa attached the suffix -ar. It is related to Illyrian personal names Dazos and Dassius and is also reflected in the toponym of Daksa island and the river Ardaxanos, which is mentioned by Polybius (2nd century BC) in the hinterland of modern Durrës and Lezhë.[10] The ethnonym Sessarethes seems to have been a variant of Dassaretes.[11][13]

Geography

Territory

The territory inhabited by the Dassaretii has been documented in literary sources dating from the Roman period. The Dassaretii were located between the tribes of Parthini (who dwelled in the Shkumbin valley) and Atintanes (who inhabited in the mountain ranges between Asamus and Aous rivers). The extent of the territory of Dassaretii seems to have been considerable, since it included the entire region between the rivers Asamus and Eordaicus (whose union forms the Apsus), the plateau of Korça locked by the fortress of Pelion and, towards the north it extended to Lake Lychnidus up to the omonym city.[14][15][5][16] The territory inhabited by Dassaretii was thus a central area of southern Illyria, directly in contact with the regions of Orestis and Lynkestis of Upper Macedonia.[14][5][17]

Livy (1st century BC) reports that following the victory of 167, the Roman Senate decided to give freedom to "Issenses et Taulantios, Dassaretiorum Pirustas, Rhizonitas, Olciniatas", rewarded because they abandoned the Illyrian kingdom of Gentius a little before his defeat. For a similar reason Daorsi too gained immunitas, while half of the tax had to be payed by "Scodrensibus et Dassarensibus et Selepitanis ceterisque Illyriis" ("the inhabitants of Scodra, Dassarenses and Seleptani, as well as by other Illyrians").[18] Some scholars have suggested that Livy's material follows exclusively Polybius (2nd century BC). However, it is contradicted by the fact that Lyvian texts reports Illyrian toponyms and ethnonyms principally located in the core of the Illyrian kingdom (Ardiaean–Labeatan dynasty), north of Via Egnatia, except for Taulantii and Dassaretii, a situation different from that of the 2nd century BC. An evident relation between the Pirustae and Dassaretii appears in the text, but the Pirustae are thought to have been located much further north of Dassaretii. This could be explained by the possibility that Pirustae had various locations in different periods, the presence two homonym tribes or with a similar name, or by an unknown and hypothetical Dassaretii expansion to the north.[19]

Settlements

Polybius mentions Pelion, Antipatreia, Chrysondyon, Gertous and Creonion as Dassaretan cities in the 2nd century BC. The precise location seems to have been found however only for Antipatreia, identified with modern Berat.[20][21][13] The city of Lychnidos located on the edge of the omonym lake, was the chief city of the Illyrian tribe of Dassaretii.[22][23] The settlement of Hija e Korbit in the Korça plain at the Devoll river (ancient Eordaicus) has been probably one of the relevant commercial and military sites of the Illyrian Dassaretii.[24] One of the most prominent settlements in the region of Illyrian Dassaretii was established at Selcë e Poshtme, where the Illyrian Royal Tombs were built.[15][25]

Culture

Language
See also: Illyrian languages

The idiom spoken by the tribe of Dassaretii belonged to the southeastern Illyrian linguistic area.[26][27]

Religion
See also: Illyrian religion

Several cult-objects with similar features are found in different Illyrian regions, including the territory of the Illyrian tribes of Dassaretii, Labeatae, Daorsi, and comprising also the Iapodes. In particular, a 3rd century BC silvered bronze belt buckle, found inside the Illyrian Tombs of Selça e Poshtme near the western shore of Lake Lychnidus in Dassaretan territory, depicts a scene of warriors and horsemen in combat, with a giant serpent as a protector totem of one of the horsemen; a very similar belt was found also in the necropolis of Gostilj near the Lake Scutari in the territory of the Labeatae, indicating a common hero-cult practice in those regions. Modern scholars suggest that the iconographic representation of the same mythological event includes the Illyrian cults of the serpent, of Cadmus, and of the horseman, the latter being a common Paleo-Balkan hero.[25][28]

The cult of Artemis under the epithet Άγρότα, Agrota was practiced in southern Illyria, in particular during the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial times. The worship of Artemis Agrota, "Artemis the Huntress", is considered an Illyrian indigenous cult since it was widespread only in southern Illyria, stretching from the Illyrian Dassaretan territory up to Dalmatia, including also the territory of Apollonia. In later Roman times, the cult of Diana Candaviensis, which has been interpreted as "Artemis the Huntress", was practiced up to the region north of Lake Shkodra (ancient lacus labeatis), including also the territory of the Docleatae.[29]

Political organization

Illyrian Realm
Royal tomb III, Selca e Poshtme near the western shore of Lake Lychnidus, Albania.

Dassaretii were one of the tribes forming the ancient Illyrian kingdom that was established in the region of suthern Illyria.[26][27]

According to a historical reconstruction, Bardylis founded a powerful Illyrian dynasty among the Dassaretii,[30][6] and ruled in their territory that comprised the area along Lychnidus and east to the Prespa Lakes, which was called "Dassaretis" in Roman times.[31][30][32][33][34][note 1] A fragment of Callisthenes (c. 360 – 327 BC) which places Bardylis' realm between Molossis and Macedonia, well determines the position of that Illyrian kingdom in the area of Dassaretis.[36] Bardylis' expansion in Upper Macedonia and Molossis, and his son Cleitus' revolt at Pelion in Dassaretis against Alexander the Great make this localization of the core of their realm even more plausible.[37][33][32]

The establishment of a tribal realm centered in the rich region of the Illyrian Dassaretii seems supported also by numismatic and epigraphic evidence.[38][16][39][24] The Illyrian Royal Tombs of Selca e Poshtme are located in the Illyrian Dassaretan region.[15] The site of Selcë was in the past a flourishing economical centre more developed than the surroundings because it occupied a predominant position inside the region currently called Mokër, and because it controlled the road which led from the Adriatic coasts of Illyria to Macedonia.[40]

A helmet reporting the inscription of the name of the Illyrian king Monunius was found in the area of lake Lychnidus in the territory of the Illyrian tribe of Dassaretii. It has been interpreted as a possible component of the equipment of a royal special force, suggesting also a financial activity of this king.[16] Dating back to the 3rd century BC, the inscriptions of Monunius are considered the oldest known in the area.[41]

Before the year 229 the Illyrian tribe of Dassaretii had been under the rule of the Illyrian kingdom of the Ardiaei, and they controlled the mountain passes eastwards over the Pindus on the border with Macedon.[42] The retreat to the north and in later times the destruction of the Illyrian kingdom highlighted numerous communities in southern Illyria – including the Dassaretii – that were organized in koina, as evidenced by historical sources, coins and epigraphic material.[43]

Illyrian dynasty

The following is a list of the members of Bardylis' Illyrian dynasty recorded as such in ancient sources, whose realm was centered in the territory of the Dassaretii as claimed by a number of modern scholars:[44]

Grabus I (fl. c. 5th century BC) and Grabus II (fl. c. 357 – 356 BC), who most likely was the son of the former, should also have ruled in the same region of southern Illyria,[45] however there are not enough historical elements to determine whether or not they were of the same dynasty as Bardylis I.[46] The same observation applies in the case of Monunius I (fl. c. 280 BC) and Mytilus (fl. c. 270 BC).[47]

Roman times institutions

Ancient historian Polybius (fl. 2nd century BC) describes peoples of Illyria, like the Dassaretae and the Ardiaei, using the term ethnos, with the meaning of "tribes" within wider national units.[48]

The Dassaretioi were mentioned in Imperial times in many inscriptions as either having an executive power or as dedicants. The official of the highest rank was, most likely, the strategos, whose seat seems to have been located in Lychnidos.[49] However, the Dassaretioi were not mentioned in a single inscription together with the polis of Lychnidos. This indicates that from the Hellenistic period they seem to have been separate political entities. It has been suggested that the tribe of Dassaretioi and the city of Lychnidos might have formed some kind of political confederation (similar to a koinon) based on the unification of various tribes or various towns and villages. This type of political organisation were quite widespread in the Balkans during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Some of these confederations survived until Imperial times, such as that of the Bylliones. Like the Orestae, the Dassaretioi were declared independent after the Roman campaigns in Macedonia as Roman allies, therefore they organized autonomous political entities.[50]

Stephanus of Byzantium (fl. 6th century AD) describes the Dassaretai as an Illyrian ethnos and does not associate them with a city. He seems to have used the term ethnos to describe the Dassaretan community in conformation to Anthony Snodgrass' definition: “In its purest form the ethnos was no more than a survival of the tribal system into historical times: a population scattered thinly over a territory without urban centres, united politically and in customs and religion, normally governed by means of some periodical assembly at a single centre, and worshipping a tribal deity at a common religious centre”. Snodgrass presents indeed the ethnos as the prehistoric precursor of the polis describing it “no more than a survival of the tribal system into historical times”.[51]

Economy

The region of the Illyrian tribe of Dassaretii bordered the regions of Macedonia and Molossia. Including the valleys of Osum and Devoll rivers, stretching to the east into the Korçë Plain, and comprising the area around lake Ohrid, the Illyrian Dassaretan region was rich in natural resources and was located in a strategic geographical position that aroused the political wishes of the neighbours and the interest of the Greek merchants.[38] The prosperous site of Selcë was important in the region, because it occupied a prominent military and commercial position and predominated in the area near Via Egnatia, which was established in Roman times. Some of its natural resources were the stone quarries. The area was likely also close to the silver mines of Damastion.[15] The Dassaretii minted coins in Hellenistic times. Coins bearing the inscription ΔΑΣΣΑΡΗΤΙΩΝ (DASSARETION) have been found in the region of Lake Lychnidus.[9] In Roman times the Dassaretii may have practiced transhumance in southern Illyria.[13]

References

Notes
  1. There is also another historical reconstruction that considers Bardylis a Dardanian ruler, who during the expansion of his dominion included the region of Dassaretis in his realm, but this interpretation has been challenged by historians who consider Dardania too far north for the events involving the Illyrian king Bardylis and his dynasty.[30][34][35]

Citations
  1. Kunstmann & Thiergen 1987, p. 112; Castiglioni 2007, p. 174; Erdkamp 1998, p. 144; Siewert 2003, p. 55; Polomé 1983, p. 537; Cabanes 2002, pp. 27, 195; Stipčević 1989, p. 28; Winnifrith 2002, pp. 46, 214; Ujes 2002, p. 106; Weber 1989, p. 81; McInerney 1999, p. 24; Cambi, Čače & Kirigin 2002, p. 11; Zindel et al. 2018, p. 280; Eckstein 2008, pp. 53, 412.
  2. Cabanes 1988, p. 49; Castiglioni 2007, p. 174; Eckstein 2008, p. 53; Erdkamp 1998, p. 144.
  3. Fasolo 2009, p. 606; Ujes 2002, p. 105.
  4. Castiglioni 2010, pp. 93–94; Garašanin 1976, pp. 278–279
  5. Kunstmann & Thiergen 1987, p. 112: "Die Dassaretae waren einer der bedeutendsten illyrischen Stämme, dessen Siedelgebiet sich von der Stadt Lychnidos am gleichnamigen See bis zur Stadt Antipatria am unteren Apsos erstreckte."
  6. Castiglioni 2007, p. 174: "Bardyllis, the king of the Dassaretii, one of the most powerful Illyrian tribes established on the border between Macedonia and Epirus."
  7. Polomé 1983, p. 537; Cambi, Čače & Kirigin 2002, p. 117.
  8. Toynbee 1969, p. 116; Mortensen 1991, pp. 49–59; Cabanes 2002, pp. 50–51, 56, 75; Castiglioni 2010, p. 58; Lane Fox 2011, p. 342; Cambi, Čače & Kirigin 2002, p. 106.
  9. Verčík et al. 2019, p. 44: "in the Hellenistic period when they were responsible for coin emissions bearing the name of the Dassaretioi (ΔΑΣΣΑΡΗΤΙΩΝ)." p. 46: "Dassaretioi, an Illyrian tribe that minted coins in Hellenistic times"
  10. Kunstmann & Thiergen 1987, p. 112.
  11. Ujes 2002, p. 106: "Les noms des souverains des mines sont tant d'origine illyrienne (Dassarètes ou Sessarèthes) que thrace (Périsadyes). Si l'on admettait que ces noms tribaux fournissent un indice de la position géographique des tribus en question, cela pourrait indiquer que les mines se trouvaient dans une zone de contact entre des tribus d'origine illyrienne et d'autres d'origine thrace".
  12. Weber 1989, p. 81: "The spelling of Dassarentii resembles two known Illyrian names, Dassaretae and Daesitiates. Of the two, Dassaretae is probably the tribe Livy meant to describe...
  13. Winnifrith 2002, p. 46: "Among Illyrian tribes, apart from the Enchelidae we find the Taulantii, Bylliones, Parthini and Bryges; other Illyrian tribes lived north of the River Shkumbin, as indeed did some of the Taulantii, since they were the barbarians who threatened Epidamnus. There is also a rather mysterious tribe called Sesarethi; they too may give their name to Dassaretis, although in what may be another case of transhumance the Dassaretae in Roman times are found near Berat." p. 214: "Dassaretae, Illyrian tribe"
  14. Cabanes 1988, p. 49: "ce sont les Dassarètes qui sont le premier ethnos illyrien qui avoisine avec les Orestes" p. 64: "Entre Parthins et Atintanes, vers l’Est s’étend le pays des Dassaretes, dont l’étendue paraît considérable, puisqu’il comprend toute la région comprise entre l’Osum et le Devoll, dont la réunion forme l’Apsus (l’actuel Seman), le plateau de Korça verrouillé par la forteresse de Pélion et, vers le Nord la Dassarétide s’étend jusqu’au lac l’Ohrid (121). C’est certainement une zone centrale de l’Illyrie méridionale, celle qui est aussi la plus directement en contact avec les régions de Haute-Macédoine, notamment avec l’Orestide et la Lyncestide."
  15. Castiglioni 2010, pp. 93–94: "Selcë appartenait géographiquement, au IIIe siècle av. J.-C., à la région illyrienne appelée Dassarétide, territoire comprenant les vallées de l’Osum et du Devoll et s’étendant vers l’est dans les plateaux de Kolonje et de Korçe, et dans la zone autour du lac de Pogradec... Il ne fait aucun doute que cette localité devait correspondre à une agglomération d’une certaine importance, en vertu à la fois desa position stratégique (du point de vue militaire et commercial puisqu’elle occupaitune place prédominante près du parcours de la future Via Egnatia) et de ses ressources naturelles (les carrières de pierre et la proximité des mines d’argent du Damastion). La richesse de sa nécropole ne fait du reste que confirmer cette impression. En particulier, la profusion d’objets précieux de la sépulture n°3 reflète une position sociale très élevée du défunt, qui fut sans doute un notable de la cité. Les reliefs représentant des armes sur la façade monumentale du tombeau, ainsi que le combatfiguré sur le fermoir de ceinture, affichent un caractère explicitement militaire: il devait donc s’agir d’un chef aux fortes prérogatives guerrières, orgueilleux de sa préé-minence et désireux d’en faire un généreux étalage."
  16. Siewert 2003, p. 55: "Ein Helm aus Lychnidos (Ochrid), dem Gebiet der illyrischen Dassareten, mit der Inschrift, gleich lautend wie auf den Münzen, βασιλέως Μονουνίου, lässt sich als Ausrüstungsteil einer königlichen Spezialtruppe interpretieren, was zu den finanziellen Aktivitäten dieses Königs passt."
  17. Erdkamp 1998, p. 144: "In the spring of 199 B.C., the Roman army, led by consul Sulpicius, marched into the fertile land of the Dassaretii, an Illyrian people who occupied the region bordering western Macedonia."
  18. Palazzo 2010, p. 285.
  19. Palazzo 2010, pp. 286–287.
  20. Cabanes 1988, p. 64: "Selon Polybe, (122), en dehors de Pélion, les Dassarètes possèdent, au début du IIe siècle avant J.-C., plusieurs villes, Antipatreia (généralement identifiée avec la position privilégiée de la forteresse de Bérat, mais l’unanimité des chercheurs n’est pas réalisée sur cette identification), Chrysondyon, Gertous ou Gerous, Créônion, mais leur localisation reste à établir."
  21. Zindel et al. 2018, pp. 278, 280: "Unmittelbar westlich von Berat fließt der Osum zwischen fast 200m hohen felsigen Erhebungen und bildet eine Engstelle, womit das bergige Hinterland von der größten Ebene Albaniens, der Muzeka, abgetrennt wird. Die strategische Lage der an der höchsten Stelle auf 187 m ü. M. liegenden Siedlung wurde schon seit der Antike genutzt und die beiden Felshöhen wurden befestigt, wobei der nördliche. Hügel besondere Bedeutung erlangte. Keramikfunde des 7. Jh. v. Chr. bezeugen zunächst eine Besiedlung des Felshügels durch die in den Quellen genannten illyrischen Dassareten. Erstmals wird Berat unter dem Namen Antipatros von Polybios 216 v. Chr. erwähnt.""
  22. Fasolo 2009, p. 606: "La via proseguiva verso Ohrid, la città sul sito del-l'antica Lychnidòs, antica capitale della tribù illirica dei Dassareti."
  23. Ujes 2002, p. 105: "Les Dassarètes sont bien attestés dans la région du lac Lychnitis (lac d'Ohrid); Lychnidos, située au bord du lac, était leur ville principale." p. 106: "origine illyrienne (Dassarètes ou Sessarèthes)".
  24. Zindel et al. 2018, pp. 375–376: "Der Hija e Korbit ist eine Erhebung (ca. 1200 m ü. M.) am Rande der Korça-Ebene, wo sich der Devoll-Fluss in einer Schlucht seinen Weg durch das Randgebirge bahnt. Das rund 20 ha große Hochplateau des Hügels südlich der Schlucht ist von antiken Befestigungsmauern umgeben, die aus grob zugehauenen Kalksteinblöcken in unregelmäßigen Scharen gebildet sind. Eingänge und mögliche Türme sind mangels archäologischer Forschungen und Planaufnahmen noch nicht erfasst. Im Innern lassen sich Reste antiker Bauten, die durch Keramikfunde in hellenistische Zeit datierbar sind, zu erkennen. Bei der Umfassungsmauer wurde erst kürzlich ein Münzdepot aus 618 Prägungen gefunden, die dem ausgehenden 4. und frühen 3. Jh. v. Chr. angehören. Vielleicht handelt es sich um einen in Kriegszeiten versteckten Münzschatz. Jedenfalls konnte von diesem strategisch günstig gelegenen Platz der von > Apollonia an der Adria nach Osten führende Passweg kontrolliert werden. Möglicherweise befand sich am Hija e Korbit eine der militärisch und handelsmäßig wichtigen Städte der illyrischen Dassareten.
  25. Garašanin 1976, pp. 278–279.
  26. Polomé 1983, p. 537: "The old kingdom of Illyria, south of Lissos, covered the territory of several tribes who shared a common language, apparently of Indo-European stock: the Taulantii, on the coast, south of Dyrrachium; the Parthini, north of this town; the Dassaretae, inland, near Lake Lychnidos and in the Drin valley; north of them were the Penestae; in the mountains, an older group, the Enchelei, lingered on." [footnote 84:] "In the oldest sources, the term 'Illyrian' appears to be restricted to the tribes of the Illyricum regnum (PAPAZOGLU, 1965). Linguistically, it can only legitimately be applied to the southeastern part of the expanded Roman Illyricum; the Delmatae and the Pannonii to the northwest mus have constituted an ethnically and linguistically distinct group (KATIČIĆ, 1968: 367-8)."
  27. Cambi, Čače & Kirigin 2002, p. 117: "The Illyrian peoples, mentioned in the sources in which the events concerning the Illyrian kingdom are narrated – to name the most outstanding – are the Taulantii, Atintani, Parthini, Enchelei, Penestae, Dassaretii, Ardiaei, Labeates, and the Daorsi. All of these peoples were conceivably more or less closely related in terms of culture, institutions and language. Many of them may have had their own kings, some of whom attained great power and actively took part in the struggle for power in the Hellenistic world. The name “Illyrian” must have carried enough prestige at the time of the rise of the Ardiaean dynasty within the Illyrian kingdom that it was imposed at a later date, when the Romans conquered Illyria and the rest of the Balkans, as the official name of the future provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia."
  28. Castiglioni 2010, pp. 93–95.
  29. Anamali 1992, pp. 135–136.
  30. Cabanes 2002, pp. 50–51, 56, 75.
  31. Lane Fox 2011, p. 342: "Bardylis was king of a realm along Lake Ohrid and east to the two Prespa Lakes, the "Dassaretis" of later topography"
  32. Cambi, Čače & Kirigin 2002, p. 106: "However, the fact that Bardylis II is the only attested Illyrian king after Glaucias (Plut., Pyrr. 9.2) does not necessarily mean that he succeeded Glaucias on the throne, but rather that at that time he was the most powerful king in Illyria who could unite the largest number of Illyran tribes under his authority. P. Cabanes thus plausibly suggested that he may have, through his father Clitus, continued the line of Bardylis I, reigning nearer the Macedonian border somewhere in Dassaretia, while the centre of Glaucias' kingdom lay in the Taulantian regions. In one way or another Bardylis II succeded in his struggle against Macedonia and temporarily brought this part of Illyria, where he prevailed over rivals, to the front."
  33. Toynbee 1969, p. 116: "The two Illyrian rulers Kleitos son of Bardyles, who was perhaps the king of the Dassaretioi, and Glaukias, the king of the Taulantioi, who went to war with Alexander III of Macedon in 335 b.c." [note 3]: "Eventually Kleitos was more powerful of the two allies; it was he who took initia-tive on this occasion (Arrian, Book I; chap. 5, § 1). It is also evident, from the sequel, that Kleitos' country was nearer to the western frontier of Macedon than Taulantia was (ibid., chap. 5, § 4-chap. 6 inclusive). Kleitos had seized the Macedonian frontier fortress Pelion on the upper reaches of the Eordaikos (Devol) River. All this points to Dassaretia's having been Kleitos' country."
  34. Mortensen 1991, pp. 49–59.
  35. Lane Fox 2011, p. 342: "Their own king Bardylis was king of a realm along Lake Ohrid and east to the two Prespa Lakes, the "Dassaretis" of later topography, not "Dardania", as Hammond postulated"
  36. Cabanes 2002, p. 56.
  37. Cabanes 2002, pp. 50–51, 73–75.
  38. Castiglioni 2010, p. 58: "L’apparition sur la scène diplomatique, à partir de 357, de Grabos II dans les ins-criptions que nous venons d’évoquer, encourage à considérer ce dernier comme le successeur de Bardylis et à établir donc le profil d’un solide « royaume » tribal hé-réditaire que les arguments convaincants de M. A. Hatzopoulos situent en Dassarétide, riche région aux frontières avec la Macédoine et la Molossie. La souverainetéd’une seule famille se serait étendue pendant au moins trois quarts de siècle sur unerégion dont les ressources naturelles et l’emplacement stratégique ont suscité lesconvoitises des voisins et l’intérêt des marchands grecs: ce détail, joint au voisinage géographique avec l’un des théâtres de la guerre du Péloponnèse, expliquerait l’im-plication militaire illyrienne et les amitiés athéniennes avec Grabos."
  39. Picard 2013, p. 82: "Kjo veçanti sjell një argument të rëndësishëm në tezën e historianëve modernë, të cilët në kërkimet për Basileis (mbretërit) ilirë, dallojnë qartë midis mbretërisë së Bardhylit kundërshtar i Filipit të II, të vendosur në malet në lindje dhe mbretërisë së Glaukias dhe asaj të Monunit në bregdet, për të cilat do të flasim sërish."
  40. Castiglioni 2010, pp. 88–89: "Le premier de ces deux témoignages est un fermoir de ceinture retrouvé dans un tombeau monumental de la localité albanaise de la basse Selce (Selcë e Poshtme) située dans le district de Pogradec, dans la partie orientale du pays, à quelques kilomètres du lac d’Ohrid et à 1010 m au-dessus du niveau de la mer. Ce centre a bénéficié dans le passé d’un essor économique plus florissant par rapport aux plus modestes agglomérations des alentours, grâce à la position centrale et prédominante qu’il occupe à l’intérieur de la contrée actuellement appelée Mokër, et grâce au contrôle de la route qui conduisait des côtes adriatiques de l’Illyrie à la Macédoine, route qui longeait le cours du fleuve Shkumbin (Genusus) et qui passait autrefois par les Gorges de Çervenake. La ville s’étendait sur les terrasses naturelles de la col-line de Gradishte ou Qyteze, dont la partie ouest descend abruptement vers le cours du fleuve Shkumbin."
  41. Verčík et al. 2019, p. 43.
  42. Eckstein 2008, p. 53: "Nor did Rome establish connections with the Dassareti, who had been under Ardiaean domination before 229 and who controlled the strategic high passes eastwards over the Pindus Range into Macedon" p. 412: "Dassareti (Illyrian people)"
  43. Buora & Santoro 2003, p. 28: "La ritirata verso nord e in seguito la distruzione del Regno illirico mise in evidenza un numero considerevole di koinà di cittadini testimoniate dalle iscrizioni (come quelli dei Byllini, dei Balaiti e degli Amanti), dalle monete (come quelli degli Olympi, dei Lisiani, dei Labiati e dei Daorsi) oppure da fonti storiche (come qelli dei Parthini, dei Dassareti e dei Penesti). Questo sistema fu mantenuto in seguito, come struttura politica autonoma funzio-nante sulla base di un'economia autarchica, anche durante l'amministrazione romana (nell'ambito della IV provincia macedone, in seguito Illyricum) fino all'anno 30 a.C."
  44. Toynbee 1969, p. 116; Mortensen 1991, pp. 49–59; Cabanes 2002, pp. 50–51, 56, 75; Castiglioni 2010, p. 58; Lane Fox 2011, p. 342; Cambi, Čače & Kirigin 2002, p. 106.
  45. Cabanes 2002, pp. 49–55.
  46. Cabanes 2002, pp. 49–55, 84–90.
  47. Cabanes 2002, pp. 84–90.
  48. Gruen 2018, p. 29: "The historian further utilizes the word ethnos to denote peoples normally understood as “tribes”, within larger national units. That would hold for peoples like the Ardiaeans and the Dassaretae of Illyria, the Gallic Insubres, Boii, Senones, and others, the Spanish Olcades, Carpedani, Balearics, Vaccaei, and others, the tribes of Media, those settled along the Euxine, the tribes of Macedonia and of Thrace, those of Libya, and a variety of Italian peoples like the Brutii, Lucanians, and Samnites."
  49. Verčík et al. 2019, p. 44
  50. Verčík et al. 2019, pp. 44–45.
  51. McInerney 1999, p. 24: "Even so, despite the use of ethnos to describe communities that resided in poleis, there are also instances where Stephanus seems to use ethnos to describe communities that seem to conform to Snodgrass's definition. The Dassaretai are called an Illyrian ethnos, while the Datuleptoi are Thrakian, neither of which is associated with a city. What these tribes share with ethne that also exist as poleis is that each has an identity not tied to a specific set of institutions." p. 19: "The definition suggested by Snodgrass is a good example of such an approach: “In its purest form the ethnos was no more than a survival of the tribal system into historical times: a population scattered thinly over a territory without urban centres, united politically and in customs and religion, normally governed by means of some periodical assembly at a single centre, and worshipping a tribal deity at a common religious centre.” Here the ethnos is presented as the prehistoric precursor of the polis (“no more than a survival of the tribal system into historical times...”

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