Po redaktohet Illyrians (paragraf)

===''Illyrii proprie dicti''===
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Ancient Roman writers [[Pliny the Elder]] and [[Pomponius Mela]] used the term ''Illyrii proprie dicti'' ('properly called Illyrians') to designate a people that was located in the coast of modern Albania and Montenegro.{{sfn|Dzino|2014|p=46}} Many modern scholars view the 'properly called Illyrians' as a trace of the Illyrian kingdom known in the sources from the 4th century BC until 167 BC, which was ruled in Roman times by the [[Ardiaei]] and [[Labeatae]] when it was centered in the [[Bay of Kotor]] and [[Lake Skadar]]. According to other modern scholars, the term ''Illyrii'' may have originally referred only to a small ''ethnos'' in the area between [[Epidaurum]] and [[Lissus (Illyria)|Lissus]], and Pliny and Mela may have followed a literary tradition that dates back as early as [[Hecataeus of Miletus]].{{sfn|Matijasić|2011|p=293}}{{sfn|Dzino|2014|p=46}} Placed in central Albania, the ''Illyrii proprie dicti'' also might have been Rome's first contact with Illyrian peoples. In that case, it did not indicate an original area from which the Illyrians expanded.{{sfn|Garašanin|1982|pp=585–586}} The area of the ''Illyrii proprie dicti'' is largely included in the southern Illyrian onomastic province in modern linguistics.<ref name="Wilkes92"/>