The Illyrian Emperors of Rome (part 1): The Barbarian Legions of the Empire

Albanians want to claim even the Roman empire as Albanian, by showing that Illyrians became Roman Emperors. The reality is that at a low point in Roman history, barbarians were taken and made into soldiers. And there was nothing glorious about these soldiers.
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'Under the Julian emperors, the occidental legions were still composed principally of natives of Italy. From the time of Vespasian that situation gradually ended. The Italians then were assigned principally only to the Praetorian Guard in Rome. The legions were filled from the provinces in which they were stationed; even the Germans, to judge from the evidence of the inscriptions, were enlisted in them in increasing numbers. In one of the inscriptions that has come down to us, a Praetorian speaks just as Vergil has spoken of the barbarian legions. And so it was, according to their blood, but by spirit, custom, and language the legions were now recruited from the national groups of the empire there were already Romanized and were becoming completely so in the service, despite their barbarian origins.'

(Hans Delbrück, History of the Art of War: The Barbarian Invasions, p 162)

'The Roman legions continued to exist in name, but their character changed. They declined to a weak militia. Besides such degenerate legions (limitanei), there existed a few others that retained their military efficiency by adopting the system of the barbarian mercenary units. The Joviani and the Herculians of Diocletian are examples.'

(Hans Delbrück, History of the Art of War: The Barbarian Invasions, p 249)

'The system of old, genuine Roman legions was based on discipline. Their ranks were filled not only by volunteers who were led into service of Mars by a natural warrior instinct but also by drafted recruits, who initially brought with them only the necessary physical qualifications.'

(Hans Delbrück, History of the Art of War: The Barbarian Invasions, p 249)

'The transition from the ancient Roman military into the new forms developed gradually, but in the end it was completed quite rapidly. It started toward the middle of the third century, and toward the end of the century, under Diocletian, it was already completed. The Roman element that still existed was no longer Roman in the old sense.'

(Hans Delbrück, History of the Art of War: The Barbarian Invasions, p 249)

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[AlbanianLeader4]

Nice Albanian/Illyrian background tunes, I love this kind of our music. For nationalist Greeks, gives up. :-)

Pershendetje

[Cutriso64]

@velikistrumfjr The city of Rome was founded April 21 754 BC So, doing a quick calculation, Rome 2,764 years. see this is the beauty of the Roman Empire! There are no data records exist for everything or almost! as regards the Illyrians is unfounded, uncertain, as precisely those pseudo Roman emperors of Illyrian origin, however this does not mean that is not true what you say!

[ValaDrinit]

lol, it was Illyrians that kept the Roman Empire from collapsing. which is why someone like Deocletian was known as the Restorer of the Empire...

and then we have Constantine that united the Empire by declaring Christianity as the official religion.

ehhhh

[albanian288]

greeks here is your history i am from macedonia fuck of hell ass /watch?v=23kvAhdYgwY

[AlboTiger7]

@therohvac You're an idiot. You judge me but yet you have no clue who I am and what type of HVACR work I do. I don't work in Europe you imbecile, I work in Canada and am part of the Union. Local 787 Refrigeration & Air Conditioning. Get your head out of your ass.

[therohvac]

@AlboTiger7 LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL bwahahahahahahahahah

A EUROPEAN ALBANIANhvac tech...wow I am so under whelmed...I fired three guys in last three month for incompetence..is was a plus when i found out from a Macedonian hvac contractor they were all three Albanian. It felt even better when i leaned that.

But i would not talk. I have seen the work Albanian techs in Europe....very sub standard compared to American talent. Take a co2 enema, butt wipe.

Greek hvac techs are great.

[AlboTiger7]

@therohvac <---- You do HVAC? hahaha!!! yeah right... go read some more books buddy because in HVAC you need a lot of common sense, and by the looks of it your lacking in that department. Just saying.... I do HVACR for a living.

[therohvac]

FUCK ALL ALBOS!! THEY MUST BE CRUSHED SO THE WORLD WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO ENDURE THEIR BODILY STENCH!

NO SUCH THING AS AN ALBO GUY OR WOMAN WHO TAKES REGULAR BATHES.