Breuci
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The Breuci (Ancient Greek: Βρεῦκοι) were an ancient Illyrian-Pannonian people who inhabited the middle and lower valley of the Sava (the Posavina), in a region corresponding to modern Slavonia in Croatia and northern Bosnia. They were among the most powerful communities of southern Pannonia at the time of the Roman conquest, and they led the Pannonian side of the great Pannonian–Dalmatian revolt of AD 6 to 9 under their leader Bato. After their subjugation the Roman army raised an exceptional number of auxiliary units from among them, and Breucian soldiers are recorded in inscriptions across the Empire, which makes the Breuci the best represented of the southern Pannonian peoples in the epigraphic record. They are mentioned by Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy and Cassius Dio.
The Breuci (Ancient Greek: Βρεῦκοι) were an ancient Illyrian-Pannonian people who inhabited the middle and lower valley of the Sava (the Posavina), in a region corresponding to modern Slavonia in Croatia and northern Bosnia. They were among the most powerful communities of southern Pannonia at the time of the Roman conquest, and they led the Pannonian side of the great Pannonian–Dalmatian revolt of AD 6 to 9 under their leader Bato. After their subjugation the Roman army raised an exceptional number of auxiliary units from among them, and Breucian soldiers are recorded in inscriptions across the Empire, which makes the Breuci the best represented of the southern Pannonian peoples in the epigraphic record. They are mentioned by Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy and Cassius Dio.
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