15 papers on research (1970-2001) into Roman Dalamtia in honour of J. J. Wilkes. Contents: 1) The prehistoric background to Dalmatia: Dalmatia from the 8th to 4th centuries BC (Dunja Glogovic); 2) The Greek background (Branko Kirigin); 3) The battle at Taurida (Sinia Bilic Dujmuic); 4) Promona: the site and the siege (Sinia Bilic Dujmuic); 5) The Roman legionary fortress at Tilurium - state of research (Mirjana Sanader); 6) The Augustan fort at Obreje, Slov (Phil Mason); 7) The urbanism of Salona and Narona inside Roman Dalmatia (Emilio Marin); 8) Excavations at Salona between 1970 and 2000 (Jagoda Mardeic); 9) A game of numbers: rural settlement in Dalmatia and the central Dalmatian islands (Vincent Gaffney and the Adriatic Islands Project team); 10) The Countryside in Liburnia (Alka Starac); 11) Late Roman Bela krajina (Phil Mason); 12) Recent epigraphic finds from the Roman province of Dalmatia (Anamarija Kurilic); 13) The economy of Roman Dalmatia (Ante kegro); 14) The maritime trade of the Roman province (Mario Juriic); 15) The Slavs and the Early Croatian State (Ante Pitea).