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Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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tries themselves.Their history, like that of other Balkan states, is one long record ofstruggle. Evidences remain of prehistoric occupation, in the shape offorts and cromlechs, but it is only in Eoman times that we emerge onsafe ground. The Romans conquered the country, and in the firstcentury before Christ it became the province of Illyricum. Many ti^acesof Roman times remain—baths, villas, bronzes, pottery, tiles, mosaics,and coins are found in various parts—and a small Roman town has beenunearthed, also two interesting relics in the shape of very early Christianbasilica. When the Roman Empire declined lUyria was overrun by 1 Cf. also this Magazine, vol. xxiv. p. 254.VOL. XXV. F SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. tribes—Vandals, Goths, and Slavs. The last came to stay. On thecoast Latin civilisation and blood held their own, and the mountains ofAlbania are said to have also harboured the Roman Illyrians, Hyingbefore the Slav wave, but the gi^eater part of the Balkan peninsula was
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