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The Latin name Abnoba Mons (Pre-Germanic Abnoba; Ancient Greek τὰ Ἄβνοβα, ta Abnoba, Ἀβνοβαῖα ὄρη Abnobaia orē) is the name of a mountain range that was already known to ancient authors Pliny and Tacitus. The name has been traditionally, primarily associated in historical research with the Black Forest. Ptolemy used the toponym in his A.D. 150 publication, Geographia, as a mountain range lying within Germania magna (ὄρη) with its southern extent at 31° 49' and its northern extremity at 31° 52'.[1] The geographer clearly did not restrict this name to present day Black Forest, but to an entire mountain chain.

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  • Maximilian Ihm: Abnoba.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. I,1, Stuttgart 1893, col. 104.
  • Werner Heinz, Rainer Wiegels: Der Diana Abnoba Altar in Badenweiler. In: Antike Welt 13/4. 1982, S. 37–43.
  • Reinhard Wenskus: Abnoba. In the Lexicon of Germanic Antiquity Studies (Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde) (RGA). 2nd edition, Vol. 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 1973, p(p). 13. (online)
  • Alfred Stückelberger, Gerd Graßhoff, ed. (2006), Ptolemaios, Handbuch der Geographie (Griechisch-Deutsch) (in German), Basel: Schwabe Verlag, ISBN 3-7965-2148-7 S. ?.
  • Gerhard Rasch (2005), Stefan Zimmer (ed.), "Antike geographische Namen nördlich der Alpen. Mit einem Beitrag von Hermann Reichert: Germanien in der Sicht des Ptolemaios", Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde: Ergänzungsbände (in German), no. 47, Berlin: de Gruyter
  • Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: Die altgermanischen Toponyme sowie ungermanische Toponyme Germaniens. Ein Handbuch zu ihrer Etymologie unter Benutzung einer Bibliographie von Robert Nedoma. Herausgegeben von Hermann Reichert. (= Philologica Germanica 34) Fassbaender, Wien 2014, ISBN 978-3-902575-62-3, S. 35–37.
  • Sabine Ziegler: Bemerkungen zum keltischen Toponym Abnova/Abnoba. In: Historische Sprachforschung 116, 2, 2003, S. 290–294.
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