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    Gentius' envoys that the charges were false. Ten years later, when Rome was gripped with war-fever against Perseus of Macedon, Issa accused Gentius of...
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  • time, Gentius was issuing bronze coins. In the Selcë hoard, there are two coins of Gentius with Macedonian emblems. The other coins of Gentius have what...
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    the Illyrian king Gentius concentrated his forces in Scodra. When he was attacked by the Roman army led by L. Anicius Gallus, Gentius fled into the city...
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  • offered Gentius 300 silver talents if hostages were exchanged. Perseus sent an envoy to Gentius who gave him his sworn sword and the hostages. Gentius sent...
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  • position. The name Gentius or Genthius does not help either as there are two Illyrian forms for it, Genthius and Zanatis. If Gentius or Genthius derives...
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    bearing their names were Lycceius, Patraus, Audoleon, Monunios, Mytilus, Gentius and Ballaios. The coinage of Patraus is remarkable. It bears on the obverse...
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    which are often of an intense blue hue. The genus name is a tribute to Gentius, an Illyrian king who may have discovered tonic properties in gentians...
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    Illyro-Roman Wars (229–168 BC). The last known "King of the Illyrians" was Gentius, of the Labeatae tribe. In southern Illyria organized realms were formed...
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    its constituents and actions.[citation needed] The name is a tribute to Gentius, an Illyrian king who was thought to have found out that the herb had tonic...
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    King Gentius and the Roman allied city Bassania in the Third Illyrian War. After the peace treaty between Gentius and Perdicass of Macedon, Gentius declared...
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    Indian gentian or Himalayan gentian, was named after the Illyrian monarch Gentius, who discovered the medicinal properties of the gentian root. Its scientific...
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    Illyrian defeat in 227 BC. Teuta was eventually succeeded by Gentius in 181 BC. Gentius clashed with the Romans in 168 BC, initiating the Third Illyrian...
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  • determines the equinoctial point. Critolaus, general of the Achaean League Gentius, the last king of Illyria (approximate date) Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    negotiated an alliance against Rome with the Illyrian king Gentius, and it was from Lissus that Gentius organized his army against the Romans. Lissus maintained...
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    the city after the third Illyrian War in 168 BCE, when the Illyrian king Gentius was defeated by the Roman force of Anicius Gallus. In the 3rd century CE...
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    "city of the Labeates", where at the end of the war Gentius' wife Etleuta, their two sons, and Gentius' brother Caravantius took refuge, implying that this...
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  • Gentius. Etuta was a Dardanian princess, the daughter of Monunius II of Dardania. Etuta was earlier engaged to Gentius' brother, Plator, whom Gentius...
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    Labeatis). The dynasty of the last Illyrian kings (Scerdilaidas, Pleuratus, Gentius) was Labeatan. It is possible that the decline of the Ardiaean dynasty...
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  • behalf. In 181 BC Pleuratus died and was succeeded by his son, Gentius. Unlike Pleuratus, Gentius developed bad relations with Rome and finally fought against...
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    Second Illyrian War. In the Third Illyrian War Epidamnus was attacked by Gentius but he was defeated by the Romans at the same year. For Catullus, the city...
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    against Teuta, the second against Demetrius of Pharos and the third against Gentius. The initial campaign in 229 BC marks the first time that the Roman Navy...
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    southern 'real' Illyrians these include Epicadus, Temus (a female name), Gentius (in Greek Genthios), Pinnes (or Pinnius), Monounios (recorded on coins)...
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    above the Lauterbrunnental. Gentians are named after the Illyrian king Gentius, and 40 species of the early-spring blooming flower grow in the Alps, in...
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    Labeatae. These later joined to form the Docleatae. The Romans defeated Gentius, the last king of Illyria, at Scodra (in present-day Albania) in 168 BC...
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  • Plator (? –169 BC) the Illyrian was brother to King Gentius, the last Illyrian king of the Ardiaean State. Plator may have been killed because he wanted...
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    196 BC, with lands annexed by the Macedonians., ruled B.C 205~B.C 181 Gentius: defeated by the Romans in 168 BC during the Third Illyrian War; Illyrian...
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    strength and dignity, also taken as a symbol from antiquity used by King Gentius of the Illyrians. The use of the crown-shaped oak branches is also seen...
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    Pharos Diocletian Eleutherius and Antia Epulon Etuta Flavianus Galaurus Gentius Glaucias of Taulantii Grabos I Grabos II Gratian Gratianus Funarius Irenaeus...
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  • Pjetër Bogdani 1630–1689 Writer and poet 1,000 Lekë Obverse 1996 King Gent (Gentius) ?-167 BC Last Illyrian king of the Ardiaean State 2,000 Lekë Obverse 2007...
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    Lekë 24.25 mm 1.5 mm 5.5 g Copper-nickel Portrait of the Illyrian King Gentius, Republika e Shqipërisë", year 1996, 2000, 2020 1996 50 Lekë 24.25 mm 5...
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