torzio
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The Illyrians came in the MBA most likely, down from an area close to the Alps-Adriatic zone. We don't know details yet, but either that or they were more regionalised and just allied up with the incoming Middle Danubian TC/UF people (R-L2 dominated), after initially suffering from them.
The Thracian and Illyrian tribes were in constant competition, among themselves and with each other. Like the Triballi seem to have assimilated the Illyrians, being largely Thracian, the opposite happened in the Srem group and with Dardanians. It wasn't the same and the Illyrians seem to have had enormous pressure from the North West still, which caused whole tribes to migrate and push each other. That way some just ended up invading former Thracian lands, where they could. And if ending up dominant, they "made" these territories Illyrian.
we see superior Illyrian tribes , pushing smaller or inferior Illyrian tribes further south over time
the 2 main Illyrian tribes in Albania where originally in Montenegro
Enchelai and Taulanti lived together near modern Budva Montenegro , before fleeing to Albania
Cadmus was the conqueror and ruler of the Greek province of Boeotia and, when he was exiled from the city of Thebes, together with his wife Harmonia, he found refuge with an Illyrian tribe called the Enchelei. According to the legend, Cadmus arrived with a team of oxen, which is where Budva got its name from (bous is Greek for ox).
The Periplus of Pseudo-Skylax from the 4th century BC, mentions the Enchelei as an Illyrian tribe on the Adriatic coast in modern-day Montenegro.
and the Taulanti replaced the Bryges in North Albania...................the Bryges headed East and also North-East
Durres and Appolonia where never Illyrian , they always remained Corinthian Greek as they began from circa 700BC , they remained Greek until the Roman occupation during the 2nd Punic war