Dragana Grbić, Tribal Communities in Illyricum. Pre-urban Administrative Structures in the Roman Provinces between the Adriatic and the Danube (first–third centuries)

The Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts has recently published a monograph of Dragana Grbić: Tribal Communities in Illyricum. Pre-urban Administrative Structures in the Roman Provinces between the Adriatic and the Danube (first–third centuries). The monograph deals with the complex processes through which the Roman empire has integrated the native population of the province of Illyricum (eventually divided into three provinces: Dalmatia, Upper Pannonia and Lower Pannonia). Based on the analysis of rich source material, both literary and epigraphic, the book illustrates the transformation of free peoples into Roman administrative units organized on the tribal bases — civitates peregrinae (i.e. communities of foreigners in the Roman state), the aspects of life of these communities within the Roman legal and institutional frameworks, the processes of their Romanization and urbanization. The book contains a thematic corpus of Roman inscriptions pertaining to the peregrine communities.

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