Luppia
Luppia ( Greek Λουππία ) is a place name that is mentioned in the Atlas Geographia compiled by Ptolemy around the year 150 .
For a long time the place could not be located. Since the investigations of an interdisciplinary research team around Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, Luppia has been assigned to the area of today's Bernburg (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt.
literature
- Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch, Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decryption of Ptolemy's "Atlas of the Oikumene". Scientific Buchgesell., Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 .
- Claudius Ptolemy: Geographia. Ed. CFA Nobbe cum introd. a Aubrey Diller , Hildesheim 1966.
Web links
- Google Earth in ancient times. In: Der Spiegel. 39/2010, p. 152ff., Accessed on February 7, 2013, with map display