Inscriptions and ancient authors · to AD 600
Who lived in Kosovo in antiquity?
The names of Kosovo's ancient inhabitants, from Roman gravestones and altars and from Greek and Latin writers, up to AD 600.
469 records · 684 names · 54 places on the map · about 340 sources
How to read the map
- Each dot is a place named in the sources. Bigger dots hold more names.
- Click a dot to see every name, its year and its source.
- Zoom in (mouse wheel, pinch or the + button) to read the labels on the map.
Colour shows the language of the names:
The colour follows the source's own label where it has one; otherwise it follows historians' reading of the name. The language of a name does not tell us how a person saw themselves. Italic means uncertain. A hollow dot marks an approximate location; a dark outline marks names from several groups; a dashed circle stands for a whole region, for sources that name no exact place.