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CHARACTER/ Genti, who was the last king of Illyria

2022-10-20 19:35:02Histori SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
CHARACTER/ Genti, who was the last king of Illyria
King Gent

King Ghent of the Illyrian tribe of Ardians is undoubtedly one of the most mentioned in the history of antiquity. Known for his sense of practicality, innovation and his passion for biology, he finds a place of honor in the pages of history. He was the last Illyrian king.

His traces are lost in 168 BC, when Shkodra fell. If we rummage through the annals of history, we notice that conjectures abound.

Some historians claim that he disappeared, was killed, escaped. Until a few years ago, no one had information about the fate of the Ardian sovereign. After the year 2000, it was the Albanian immigrants in Italy who followed the footsteps of King Gent.

His tomb is located in Italy, in the province of Gubbio, Perugia, in the province of Umbria.

Who was the last Illyrian king?

King Ghent was the sovereign of the Ardian tribe with its capital in Shkodra. Reign from 192 BC to 168 BC

He was the son of King Pleurat and was married to Etleua, daughter of King Muonun of the Dardanians.

The reign and life of Ghent

Ghent came to power in 181 BC He, from the beginning of his reign, was opposed by the Roman policy, which directed you with all its severity.

He was accused of inciting the resumption of piracy on the part of the Illyrians, and with this pretext the senate appointed in 178 a special fleet of 10 ships, which would operate in the Adriatic to guard the waters between Ancona and Taranto from the Illyrian fleet.

Rome incited the Dalmatians against him, who seceded from the kingdom. King Ghent had to wage a fierce war against the high aristocracy, which had pro-Roman tendencies and enjoyed wide support even at the royal court.

Nothing deterred Ghent in this war, in which he also sacrificed his brother, Platorus, whom Rome intended to place on the throne in his stead.

Ghent devoted all his attention to the economic and political strengthening of the kingdom. What is best proven to us by the sources among the masses with an economic character is the dense coinage activity that Ghent developed.

King Ghent in the policy he pursued in the field of monetary coinage can be considered a true reformer. This allowed the king to concentrate powerful financial means in his hands. Indisputable evidence is the contents of the royal treasury that was captured by the Romans.

The density of monetary denominations was dictated in the first place by the international situation. The Roman danger was becoming more and more evident, so the king had to increase his efforts to strengthen the army and the fleet.

Those elements of state organization that appeared sporadically in the sources of the period of Agron's rule or those of his successors, come to Ghent and are completed, and the problem becomes clearer in its entirety.

At the time of Ghent, the Illyrian Kingdom extended over a fairly wide territory and represented the second power after Macedonia, in the western and southern part of the Peninsula.

Ghent held the title "king of the Illyrians" and ruled as a Roman king, and no other authority was known in the sources to limit his actions.

Complicated relations with Rome made Ghent take care to establish good relations with its Balkan neighbors. From the very beginning, he managed to establish friendly relations with the eastern neighbor, the Dardanian Kingdom. The basis of the foreign policy of the Illyrian state at this time was the friendly relations with Macedonia.

At the moment when the conflict between Rome, Illyria and Macedonia had reached its peak, the Illyrian king had decided to go to war against Rome, choosing this as the only way to protect political independence. His decision was received with enthusiasm in the other countries of the Balkans, because it raised hopes for victory over the Romans.

After several battles, the end of his reign is connected with the III Illyrian-Roman War, when the Ardians were defeated. In 168 BC, he surrendered to the Roman legions that conquered Shkodra.

Realizing that he could no longer defend his territories, Ghent agreed to be sent as a prisoner to Rome together with his family, on the condition that the population would not be persecuted and killed.

Simultaneously with Illyria and Macedonia, the Romans also subdued Epirus. Genti and his family were sent to Rome. Thus the two powerful states in the Balkans were signed and Roman rule was established in these provinces.

Historians claim that the Ardian king was taken as a captive to Rome and held prisoner for a year and then executed.

Meanwhile, according to another and less reliable version, he was sent to the Roman Empire, where he was given offices and wealth, to abdicate the throne of the Ardian tribe.

However, the mausoleum has the characteristics of an aristocratic tomb and takes place in the necropolis area of ​​Gubbio, which was quite developed at the time.

CHARACTER/ Genti, who was the last king of Illyria
The mausoleum where King Ghent was buried

This fact leaves a clear path to believe that the Romans honored Ghent of Illyria after his death, although in and abroad.

Passions of King Gent

King Ghent is also mentioned in history for his passion for biology. It is said that he roamed the mountains and forests of the kingdom and collected medicinal and curative plants. Even today, a plant bears his name "gentiana".

In the Illyrian kingdoms, Ghent is thought to have been among the first to issue a bronze coin with his head symbol.


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