Jireček Line

The Jirecek line is an imaginary line that passes through the Balkan peninsula and linguistically the Latin influence area to the north from the Greek south for the length of time since the conquest of Greece by the Roman Empire until it was divided into Western and Eastern Roman Empire, or about the second century BC to the late fourth century AD, separates. The line goes from the Albanian city of Serdica on Laç - now Sofia in Bulgaria - after approximately along the ridges of the Balkan Mountains to the Black Sea.

This line was established on the basis of archaeological finds: North of the inscriptions are mainly in Latin, written south of it in Greek.

This line is important for the localization of the room in which some Balkan nations have emerged, especially the Dakorumänen and Aromanians. The possibility that a Roman people could have formed south of this line is very unlikely.

The line was first mentioned in a history book about the Slavic peoples of the Czech historian Konstantin Jirecek in 1911.

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