TAULANTII

The 'Taulantii' were an ancient Illyrian people in the neighborhood of Epidamnus (Thuc. i. 24). According to Greek mythology Tαύλας (''Taulas''), one of the six sons of Illyrius, was the eponymous ancestor of the Ταυλάντιοι (''Taulantioi'') .^[1] They were originally powerful and independent, under their own kings. One of these was Glaucias, who fought against Alexander the Great, and placed Pyrrhus, the infant king of Epirus, whom he had refused to surrender to Cassander, upon the throne (Plutarch, ''Pyrrhus'', 3).
Later, the Taulantii fell under the sway of the kings of Illyria, and when the Romans were carrying on war against the Illyrian queen, Teuta, they were unimportant.

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1. Appian, ''The Foreign Wars, III, 1.2''


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