Andouaition

Andouaition - in Latin andouaition ; Greek  Ἀνδουαίτιον - is a place name that is given in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the east of southern Germania magna along the Danube (πόλεις) with 40 ° 30 ′ longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 47 ° 40 ′ latitude. According to Ptolemy, Andouaition lies between Ebourodounon and Kalamantia . 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 Ptolemaios, is currently locating Andouaition - thus confirming Hermann Patzig's identification - using the transformed ancient coordinates at today's Andovce ( ^▼ ) in Nitriansky kraj (Neutra Landscape Association) in Slovakia . The city of Andovce is located in the Slovakian Danube hill country on a corridor terrace between the Waag and the Nitra . Identification with Andač - probably meant Zbehy-Andač ( ^▼ ) in the Nitra region - is also seen by the research group around Kleineberg as possible, because place names with the element And- are piling up in this area .

Remarks

1. ↑ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,15
2. ↑ Reinhard Wenskus :  Andouaition. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 279, ( available for a fee from GAO , De Gruyter Online).
3. ↑ Hermann Patzig: The cities of Greater Germany with Ptolemy and the corresponding places today . Dortmund 1917, p. 34.
4. ^ 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 :  Andouaition. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 279, ( available for a fee from 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. 64–65.
• Maximilian Ihm : Colancorum . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 1, Stuttgart 1900, 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