The Pirustae in 218 B.C.

The Pirustae — Illyrian Tribes.

A mountain people of the ore-rich interior, famed above all as miners and workers of metal. The hills of their country run with gold and silver and iron, and the Pirustae are the smiths and diggers who win it from the rock — a hardy highland folk whose skill at the mines and the forge makes their land a prize coveted by every power that reaches toward the interior.