Delminium

Delminium was an Illyrian city, the principal settlement of the Dalmatae tribe and the capital of Dalmatia, located near present-day Tomislavgrad in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Archaeological work between 1896 and 1898 led Karl Patsch to place it on the Lib mountain southeast of Tomislavgrad. Ancient writers called it a large, almost impregnable city, and it is assumed that about 5,000 Dalmatae lived there. Roman commanders destroyed and burned it in the war with the Dalmatae that began in 156 BC, after which the Romans rebuilt it from 18 and 19 AD under Tiberius. It later passed to the Goths, then to the Byzantine Empire, and was inhabited by Slavs from the middle of the seventh century. It was also the seat of a Latin bishopric.