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The provinces of the Danube soon acquired the general appellation of Illyricum, or the Illyrian frontier, and were esteemed the most warlike of the empire; but they deserve to be more particularly considered under the names of Rhætia, Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia, Dacia, Mæsia, Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece.","notes":[{"id":"78","text":"Tournefort, Voyages en Grece et Asie Mineure, lettre xviii.","voice":"Gibbon","at":437},{"id":"79","text":"The name of Illyricum originally belonged to the sea-coast of the Adriatic, and was gradually extended by the Romans from the Alps to the Euxine Sea. 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The greatest part of the flat country is subject to the elector of Bavaria; the city of Augsburg is protected by the constitution of the German empire; the Grisons are safe in their mountains, and the country of Tirol is ranked among the numerous provinces of the house of Austria.","notes":[],"authorities":[],"alt":80,"wps":43}},{"role":"after","paragraph":32,"humanUrl":"https://gloss.page/read.html?t=gibbon-1#p32","chapter":{"type":"chapter","label":"Chapter I","short":"Chapter I","head":"Chapter I · The Extent Of The Empire In The Age Of The Antonines"},"unit":{"i":31,"v":0,"kind":"p","text":"The wide extent of territory which is included between the Inn, the Danube, and the Save,—Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, the Lower Hungary, and Sclavonia,—was known to the ancients under the names of Noricum and Pannonia. In their original state of independence, their fierce inhabitants were intimately connected. 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