Illyrian religion refers to the religious beliefs and practices of the Illyrian peoples, a group of tribes who spoke the Illyrian languages and inhabited part of the western Balkan Peninsula from at least the 8th century BC until the 7th century AD.
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Albanians preserved traces of Illyrian religious symbolism, and ancient Illyrian religion is probably one of the underlying sources from which Albanian folk beliefs have drawn nourishment.
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Study in the field of Illyrian religion is in several cases insufficient for a description even at the level of basic attributes of individual deities.
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An Illyrian religion god named Medaurus is mentioned in a dedication from Lambaesis made by a Roman legatus native of the Illyrian religion city of Risinium.
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Illyrian religion was possibly regarded as a war god among Illyrian soldiers fighting in the Roman legions along the limes, especially during the Marcomannic Wars.
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Illyrian religion's name was found on an altar erected at Fuzine, in a dangerous site for navigation near the rapids of the Ljubjanica river.
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Illyrian religion's name has been compared with Albanian dej and Gothic dwals, reinforcing the association of the Paeonian deity with wine and intoxication.
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Messapic was probably related to the Illyrian religion languages spoken on the other side of the Adriatic Sea, as both ancient sources and modern scholars have described an Illyrian religion migration into Italy early in the first millennium BC.
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Illyrian religion was often worshipped under the epithet Juppiter Menzanas, and horses were sacrificed to him by being thrown alive into a fire.
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