The Daesitiates in 218 B.C.

The Daesitiates — Illyrian Tribes.

A warlike people of the deep central mountains of the Illyrian interior, in the high valleys far from the reach of the sea. Theirs is a country of forests and crags, and they are reckoned among the most stubborn fighters of the inland nations — a hardy mountain folk who keep to their fastnesses and bow to no power beyond their hills.