Mazaei
Mazaei or Maezaei (
Vrbanja and Ugar
rivers.
Overview
Mazaeiand Breuci on the north-east.
Like other Illyrians, Mazaei lived in fortified or semi-fortified settlements, subsisting on agriculture, hunting and fishing, and craftsmanship. Ancient writers like Herodian, Livy, Pliny, Strabo, Theophrastus and others described the Illyrians as tall, strong warriors, and heavy drinkers. And they lived in patriarchal communities. Every eight years they divided their lands according to each other's struggles and resistance to the enemy. Mazaei had 269 judges.[3]
In 10 AD Roman administrators divided the province of Illyricum into the new provinces: Pannonia in the north and Dalmatia in the south. The term Illyria remained in use in Late Latin and throughout the medieval period.
See also
References
- ^ Erwin Koschmieder, Die Welt der Slaven, Volume 30, Sagner, 1985, p. 81.
- ISBN 0-631-19807-5.
- ^ Šentija J., ed. (1977). Opća enciklopedija Jugoslavenskog leksikografskog zavoda, 3: Foc-Iw. Zagreb: Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod.
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