Octavian's military campaigns in Illyricum (35-33 B.C.) constitute the first attempt by the future emperor Augustus to occupy the Illyrian area, shortly...

emperor. Illyricum became a province as a formal administrative unit in 27 BC, as part of the settlement by which the Roman senate formalised Octavian's personal...

Trapped on land and sea, deserters of Antony's army fled to Octavian's side daily while Octavian's forces were comfortable enough to make preparations. Antony's...

threat to Octavian's political position. Far more dangerous was the acknowledgment of Caesarion as legitimate and heir to Caesar's name. Octavian's base of...

and 33 BCE, Aquileia still remained "headquarters" of Octavian's military campaigns in Illyricum. It was at the center of three different routes: the one...

The military campaigns of Julius Caesar were a series of wars that reshaped the political landscape of the Roman Republic, expanded its territories, and...

internal order. From the outset, Rome's military typified this pattern, and the majority of Rome's campaigns were characterised by one of two types. The...

Brutus fought Octavian, Cassius fought Antony. Brutus' forces were successful and stormed Octavian's camp and destroying three of Octavian's legions. Cassius'...

Apollonia, in Illyria. Following the assassination of Octavian's great-uncle Julius Caesar in 44 BC, Octavian returned to Italy. Around this time, Agrippa was...

accepted his inheritance in May. Octavian's arrival was met hostilely by Antony. Tension between the two quickly developed. Octavian petitioned for Antony...

into Octavian's army, some of them were levied by Marc Antony. Fimbrian legions: 86 BC – 66 BC, Lucius Valerius Flaccus. These 2 legions fought in the...

in piracy and raided north-eastern Italy. In response, Octavian (who later became the emperor Augustus) conducted a series of campaigns in Illyricum (35–33...

(Latin for War of the Batos) was a military conflict fought in the Roman province of Illyricum in the 1st century CE, in which an alliance of native peoples...

Gaius the Elder in his early childhood. Germanicus became a quaestor in AD 7, four years before the legal age of 25. He was sent to Illyricum the same year...

of the Rhine. See also Roman campaigns in Germania (12 BC – AD 16). 14: Mutiny of the legions in Germania and Illyricum suppressed by Germanicus and Drusus...

simultaneously. Brutus' forces defeated Octavian's troops on the republican right flank, sacking Octavian's camp and forcing the young Caesar to withdraw...

the following year, the campaign was taken over by Tiberius, who celebrated his triumph in 11 BC. The province of Illyricum was established between the...

numerals already in use by Antony. The latter had serving with him Legio V Alaudae, Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X Equestris. Soon we find Octavian's army boasting...

Eastern Mediterranean came under Octavian's control, marking the beginning of the Principate. Following Actium, Octavian entrusted Macedonia to the proconsul...

command. Campaigns of Germanicus and A. Caecina Severus in 14–16 AD Military action in 14 AD Campaigns in 15 AD Operations in 16 AD Germanicus' campaign had...

statesman; much of his life is known from his own accounts of his military campaigns. Other contemporary sources include the letters and speeches of Cicero...

in his reign, Rome conquered Cantabria, Aquitania, Raetia, Dalmatia, Illyricum and Pannonia. Under Augustus' reign, Roman literature grew steadily in...

place in the Church administrative hierarchy, after the five patriarchs. Among the sees of Illyricum, Thessalonica held the first position in the hierarchy...

15) to commemorate his victories in Illyricum, Actium and Egypt. Marcus Licinius Crassus campaigns successfully in the Balkans, killing the king of the...

Vatinius. The fourth and final conflict occurred during Octavian's expedition to Illyricum in 34 BC because of their iterative revolts. The two Dalmatian...

powerful Illyrian king after the death of Bardylis in 358. Plutarch, Pyrrhus 9. D. Dzino, Illyricum in Roman Politics 229 BC - AD 68 (Cambridge 2010), pp...

Gallicana, of which the future emperor Aurelian was a military tribune. Gallienus, having left Illyricum on forced marches, rushed to the West, managing to...

of the Byzantine Empire). Octavian, the grandnephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, had made himself a central military figure during the chaotic period...

rebelled against Octavian because he demanded that even his brother's veterans were distributed lands in Italy (in addition to Octavian's 170,000 veterans)...

his elder brother, the four-year-old Tiberius, are living in Octavian's household. Octavian appoints Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa governor of Transalpine...