Trade flourishes during the Iron Age (beginning…
765 BCE to 622 BCE
Trade flourishes during the Iron Age (beginning 700 BCE) between the developing city-states of Italy and Greece and the region's first identifiable peoples: Illyrian-speaking tribes north of Lake Ohrid and west of the Vardar River (in present-day Macedonia), Thracian speakers in the area of modern Serbia, and the Veneti, who probably speak an Italic tongue, in Istria and the Julian Alps (in present-day Slovenia and northwest Croatia).