an ancient people, conjectured by Niebuhr to be of Pelasgic race, who inhabited the northern portion of Illyricum, in the neighbourhood of the Sinus Flavianus. The country of Liburnia proper was bounded on the one side by the Titus, and on the other by the Arisa; but these limits were only assigned to it after the Gallic invasion, and by no means represent the real strength of the Liburnian people. From a very remote period they had been distinguished as daring seamen, and had spread extensively along the shores of the Adriatic. Corecyn, Issa, and other islands in the neighbourhood, were held by them at the time when the Greeks became masters of these places. The Vindelici and Veneti are believed to have been of Liburnian origin, and the city of Truentum, on the E. coast of Italy, was a Liburnian town. It remained true to the traditions and nationality of the race amid all the fluctuations of the surrounding population. Like all their neighbours, the Liburnians were noted pirates, and their privateers, with a large lateen sail, were for centuries the terror of the seas. Their style of naval architecture was adopted by the Romans in the second Macedonian war. It was chiefly by means of their light galleys that Augustus gained the battle of Actium. The only towns of any importance in Liburnia were Jadera, the capital, and Scardona, at which a famous congress of fourteen Liburnian towns was held. When the country was incorporated with the province of Dalmatia, Jadera was made a colony by the Romans.