The Pirate Queen who fought the Romans

In the third century BC, Teuta, Queen Regent of the Ardiaei, led a kingdom known for piracy to great victories and expansion along the Adriatic coast. But their actions drew the attention of a growing power in the Mediterranean, Rome. The First Illyrian War pitted the might of the new Roman navy against a Pirate Queen. It is history that deserves to be remembered.

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[simplehd]

That’s story I heard from older Italian man who said that TEUTA was Albanian Queen and Illyrian undefeated Army.
Amazing stroy as been stolen, Real Albanian story needs to be discovered.

[dontsearchdocumentingreali]

Fun fact: name Teuta is still given to females in Albania and Croatia.

[nikobitan]

Greetings from Herzegowina, ilirian tribe Daorsi!!!! We found and ilirian boat in a sea Thank you for supporting our ancient history!!

[albodab]

We had another Teuta in the WW1 called Shote Galica and many other brave womens.

[eaglealb]

The Illyrians also called it same as the Romans "Deti Jon" - or internationally known as "Ionnian Sea" and means "Our Sea".

[yahulwagoni]

"For I am a Pirate King!
(He is a Pirate King)
And it is, it is, a glorious thing,
to be a Pirate King".

[ervinxx]

Proud of our Antique History 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 Anna I Komnene write for Our Legacy from Illyrian Tribes...

[raymondcaylor]

OKAY... it's history that deserves to be remembered. I agree 100%. I would love to buy a book from the History Guy that explains events from 2, 000 years ago and not only explains the history but explains who wrote it down including why and how. The History Guy is awesome! The YouTube channel is awesome! Continued success and thanks for your hard work.

[lukejacobs]

teuta a typical albanian name still used today and agron as well

[jeaniquevangheluwe]

Thank you to the international historians and especially to those of Western Europe and America who tell the true history of the Illyrian peninsula in a neutral way, because the Greek and Serbian states have often tried to manipulate history, of course with the help of Russian politics.
Half of my village are still called girls and boys with these names: teuta, agron, dardan, alban, ilir, aferdita, molos,glauk,Gent, bardyls (bardhyl), etc
Most of the names of gods and myths known as Greek have a meaning or connection with the Albanian language.
Even the Greek name- "graeci", in Albanian "women walk" is called a place where women almost dominated and walked barefoot in the mountains and prayed to their god that was Zeus in Albanian Zoti= God.
the famous tree "Druidi", in Albanian the “tree knows”a tree that knows everything, so a blessed tree.
Troja this name or this word is still used today in the Albanian language which means land, for example when someone has land for sale you can see us in Kosovo table: "troje ne shitje”= "land for sale"🇦🇱🇽🇰

[hdbhighdefinition]

My girlfriend it's called Teuta and I call my queen

Gretings from Kosova

[Thresher]

I love the ancient history stuff. The more, the better.

[shawnr]

Very good lesson today.

Thank you.


These are subjects not well covered in the basic history class.

[Artur_M.]

I don't think I ever was that early. This is surely going to be a very good episode. How can it not be with pirates? :)

[wilshire]

You should put that on a shirt. "Don't all great stories involve pirates?"

[Meeoowwzer]

My two favorite quote from this channel are “History... That deserves to be remembered”
And
“Because, don’t all great stories involve pirates?”

[CauliflowerMcPugg]

The Romans hit the nail on the head with their description of the region. War like, heavy drinking and always ready for a fight. Nothing ever really changes.

[dirus]

The Romans learned from Teuta the value of a skilled and powerful naval force. That the Romans then used to concur with.

[lisanikci]

I m Albanian I have my son named Agron named after King Agron if had girl would’ve named her Teuta but I had a another boy so named him Anthony after St Anthony 🙏🏻
Proud to be Albanian 🇦🇱🙏🏻🦾♥️

[jmeyerrn]

I would love that cruise. Health is a huge issue right now. Great video. Great history!!!