The Illyrian movement was a pan-South-Slavic cultural and political campaign with roots in the early modern period, and revived by a group of young Croatian intellectuals during the first half of the
Danica Ilirska, Ljudevit Gaj's newspaper.
Leaflet praising the Sabor of the Triune Kingdom for elevating the "people's language" to the "honor of diplomacy".
Vlaho Bukovac: Hrvatski narodni preporod, Curtain at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb
Pan Slavic postcard "Dědictví otců, zachovej nám, Pane"
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
Illyrian movement
…linguistic and ethnic unity, and through it lay the foundation for cultural and linguistic unification of all South Slavs under the revived umbrella term Illyrian. Aspects of the movement pertaining to the development of Croatian culture are considered in Croatian historiography to be part of the Croatian national…
The young Pyrrhus at the court of King Glaukias of Taulantii by Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont, early 19th century
Queen Teuta of the Ardieai orders the Roman ambassadors to be killed – painted by Augustyn Mirys
Silver coin of Roman emperor Trajan Decius (249–251 CE), with the inscription Genius Exerc[itus] Illuriciani