Parthini
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The Parthini, Partini or Partheni were an Illyrian tribe that lived in the inlands of southern Illyria. They likely were located in the Shkumbin valley controlling the important route between the Adriatic Sea and Macedonia, which corresponded to the Via Egnatia of Roman times. Consequently, their neighbours to the west were the Taulantii and to the east the Dassaretii in the region of Lychnidus.
View of Shkumbin; it constituted an important route between the Adriatic Sea and Macedonia. The first part of the Via Egnatia retraced it as a land route.
The ancient Via Egnatia in Librazhd, Albania. The first part of the road crossed Illyricum mainly in Parthinian territory.
Illyrians
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The Illyrians were a group of Indo-European-speaking people who inhabited the western Balkan Peninsula in ancient times. They constituted one of the three main Paleo-Balkan populations, along with the Thracians and Greeks.
Queen Teuta of the Ardieai orders the Roman ambassadors to be killed – painted by Augustyn Mirys
Illyrian ship dating from the 8th–7th century BC
The chromolithographic Bronze belt plaque of Vače, Slovenia of the Hallstatt culture
Details of the late antique cathedral complex in Byllis, Albania and the Adriatic sea in the distance.