Pannonia Superior
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| Provincia Pannonia Superior | |||||
| Province of the Roman Empire | |||||
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| Pannonia Superior map | |||||
| Capital | Carnuntum | ||||
| History | |||||
| • | Established | 103 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 3rd century | |||
| Today part of | |||||
Pannonia Superior, lit. Upper Pannonia, was an ancient Roman province with the capital in Carnuntum. It was formed in the year 103 AD. The province included parts of present-day Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Slovakia.
History[edit]
It was as governor of the province that Septimius Severus made his bid for the Roman Imperial throne in April 193 CE.
In 308 the Emperor Diocletian chaired a historic meeting with his co-emperors Maximian and Galerius in Carnuntum to solve the rising tensions within the tetrarchy
Cities[edit]
Some of the important cities in Upper Pannonia were:
- Siscia (today Sisak)
- Poetovio (today Ptuj)
- Iovia Botivo (today Ludbreg)
- Aquae Balissae (today Daruvar)
- Servitium/Serbinum (today Gradiška)
- Andautonia (today Ščitarjevo)
- Savaria (today Szombathely)
- Scarbantia (today Sopron)
- Arrabona (today Győr)
- Vindobona (today Vienna)
Later usage[edit]
The northern part of the 8th-century Frankish March of Pannonia was also called Upper Pannonia. The name can be found even much later in a similar, but wider, meaning. E.g. Otto von Freising (Chron. 6, 15) uses it to refer to Austria (i.e. Austria proper) in the 12th century.