Anauon

Anauon
Greek Surname	Ἄναυον
Lat. Surname	Anabum
Polis	94. Polis in Germania magna
ptol. climate	Ptolemaic Climate IV (Danube Zone)
ptol. map	Germania magna
Dating	around 150 AD
ptol. length	41 ° 55 'or 41 ° 40' 'length
ptol. width	47 ° 30 'latitude
River system	Danube
Location after Kleineberg	at today's Komárno (Komorn) in Nitriansky kraj (Neutraer Landschaftsverband) in southern Slovakia
Brief description	(The city of Komárno is located directly at the confluence of the Waag and the Danube .)
Polis afterwards	Singons

Anauon - in Latin anabum ; ( Greek  Ἄναυον ) - is a place name, which in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the east of the southern Germania magna and along the Danube (πόλεις) with 41 ° 55 ′ or 41 ° 40 ′ longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 47 ° 30 'latitude is indicated. Anauon follows Ptolemy as the last place on the Danube in the east to Singone . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

So far the place could not be located safely. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, is currently locating Anauon based on the transformed ancient coordinates at today's Komárno (Komorn) in Nitriansky kraj (Neutra Landscape Association) in southern Slovakia . The city is located directly at the mouth of the Waag and the Danube .

Remarks

1. ↑ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,15
2. ↑ Reinhard Wenskus :  Anauon. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 274, ( payable via GAO , De Gruyter Online).
3. ^ Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch, Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decoding of Ptolemy's "Atlas of the Oikumene". Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , p. 60.

literature

• Reinhard Wenskus :  Anauon. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 274, ( payable via GAO , De Gruyter Online).
• Hermann Reichert :  Ptolemaeus. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 23, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017535-5 , pp. 567–597, ( paid for via GAO , De Gruyter Online).
• Alfred Stückelberger, Gerd Graßhoff (ed.): Ptolemaios, Handbook of Geography (Greek-German) . Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7965-2148-7 (work in 2 half-volumes, with CD-ROM).
• Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: The old Germanic toponyms as well as non-Germanic toponyms of Germania. A handbook on its etymology using a bibliography by Robert Nedoma. Published by Hermann Reichert (=  Philologica Germanica 34). Fassbaender, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902575-62-3 , pp. 61–64.
• Maximilian Ihm : Anabum . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Sp. 2016.
• Wilhelm Tomaschek : Adiavum . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 361.

Web links

• Edition of Geographike Hyphegesis with translation and map of Germania magna , accessed on November 16, 2016
• Google Earth in ancient times. In: Der Spiegel. 39/2010, accessed November 16, 2016