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was seized by Glaukias, the king of Illyria, in 312 BC, but after a war with the Roman Republic in 229 BC ended in a defeat for the Illyrians, the city passed to Roman rule, under which it was developed as a major military and naval base. The Romans renamed it Dyrrachium (Greek: ?????????, Dyrrhachion). They considered the name Epidamnos to be inauspicious because of its coincidental similarities with the Latin word damnum, meaning

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