Alums
The alums were probably a Celtic sub-tribe from the Kingdom of Noricum , which was largely located in today's Austria and Old Bavaria and was ruled by the main Noriker tribe . Their settlement area probably extended from the lower Saalachtal to the Chiemsee . The tribal center is said to have been in Karlstein near Bad Reichenhall , where the Celts exploited the brine springs in the Latène period and maintained a coinage .
They are mentioned by Claudius Ptolemy ( Geographike Hyphegesis 2, 13, 2: Ἀμβισόντιοι) together with five Noric tribes:
"From midnight the Sevazer and alums, as well as the Ambisontier , and closer to the east the Noric Ambitravers and Ambilikers."
Together with the Ambisonts to the south of them, they are mentioned a few times in the communications of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies under the name Alaunen der Alpen as the population or cooperative dedicated to salt operations .
According to Gatterer , Ptolemaeus calls them European Alans or alums in another text , but evidently means a people that he settles in the "Alaunic Mountains around the sources of the Dnieper ". In the same book it is said that Prokopios of Caesarea attributed these "alums" to the Goths.
literature
- Heinz Dopsch , Robert Hoffmann : Salzburg, the history of a city. 2nd updated edition, Verlag Anton Pustet , Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7025-0598-1 , pp. 32–38.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Franz Thaddäus von Kleinmayrn: News of the state of the area and city of Juvavia before, during and after the domination of the Romans up to the arrival of St. Rupert and his transformation into today's Salzburg. Orphanage Bookstore, 1784, p. 8, § 12. ( online )
- ^ Society for Salzburg Regional Studies: Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies. Volume 19, Verlag Die Gesellschaft, 1879, pp. 4-7. ( online )
- ↑ Johann Christoph Gatterer : Introduction to the synchronistic universal history. In Verlag der Wittwe Vandenhoeck , Göttingen 1771, Volume 2, p. 868. ( online )