The Labeatae, Labeatai or Labeates were an Illyrian people that lived on the Adriatic coast of southern Illyria, between modern Albania and Montenegro, around Lake Scodra.
View of Lake Scodra, known as Lacus Labeatis in classical antiquity.
A coin of the Labeatan ruler Gentius.
A 2nd-century BC Labeatan coin from Scodra.
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.