伊利里亚

伊利里亞
Yīlìlǐyà
proper noun #36,738

Meanings

  1. 1 Illyria (ancient region on the eastern Adriatic coast)
  2. 2 the fictional setting of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Examples

Gǔdài Yīlìlǐyà wèiyú Yàdélǐyàhǎi dōng'àn.
Ancient Illyria lay on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea.
Shāshìbǐyà de 《 Dìshí'èr Yè 》 gùshi jiù fāshēng zài Yīlìlǐyà.
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is set in Illyria.

Tips

culture
Historically Illyria covered parts of today's Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, and Albania, conquered by Rome in the 2nd–1st century BCE. Roman emperors Diocletian and Constantine were both of Illyrian origin — a fact often noted in Chinese world-history textbooks.

In Pop Culture

第十二 《 Dìshí'èr Yè 》
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's romantic comedy set in Illyria — the play that anchors the name in Chinese literary education.

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