Illyrians - Illyrians

Japanese: イリュリア人 - イリュリアじん

In English, Illyrian. The Illyrians are the indigenous people of the western Balkan Peninsula, and several groups of the same tribe, who spoke ancient Indo-European languages, are called Illyrians. They are believed to have invaded the lands of the Germanic tribes, Greece, and Asia Minor in prehistoric times, and there is a theory that the destruction that occurred from Asia Minor to the Greek world around 1200 BC is the result of this great migration. In the 3rd century BC, they ruled from northern Albania to the Adriatic coast, but in 168 BC, they came under Roman rule. They are thought to have assimilated with the Romans, and then with the South Slavs from the 6th century onwards, and their name remains in place names on the western coast of the Adriatic Sea in northern Albania. They did not have a written language, and no documents remain, but in the past, inscriptions in Messapian language from southern Italy were considered to be of the same lineage, and it was assumed that they were part of a single language group called Illyrian. They were also said to be the ancestors of the Albanian language. However, in recent years, Messapian materials have also tended to become independent, and the very concept of Illyrian is being forced to be reconsidered. Later, the Illyrians were considered to be the ancestors of the South Slavs, and so the Croatian ethnic revival movement of the mid-19th century was called the "Illyrian Movement."

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英語ではIllyrian。バルカン半島西部の先住民で，古代インド・ヨーロッパ語系のいくつかの同族集団がイリュリア人と呼ばれる。これが先史時代にはゲルマン族の地，ギリシア，小アジアに侵入していたと推定され，前1200年ごろ小アジアからギリシア世界にかけての破壊の跡をこの民族の大移動の結果とみる説がある。前３世紀アルバニア北部からアドリア海沿岸にかけて支配したが，前168年ころローマの支配に服した。ローマ人，次いで６世紀以降は南スラブ人との同化が進んだと考えられ，現在ではアルバニア北部のアドリア海西岸の地名に名を残している。彼らは文字を持たず，文書類は残っていないが，かつては南イタリアのメッサピア語の碑文が同系のものとみなされ，ここにイリュリア語派（Illyrian）なる一語派が想定されていた。またアルバニア語の祖ともいわれた。しかし最近ではメッサピア資料も独立する傾向にあり，イリュリア語なる概念そのものが再検討を迫られている。のちにイリュリア人は南スラブ人の祖先と考えられたため，19世紀半ばのクロアティア人の民族再生運動は〈イリュリア運動〉を称した。

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