Aregelia

Location of Aregelia in the Atlas of Ptolemy

Aregelia , also Areletia ; ( Greek Ἀρελετία ) is a place name that is given in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the interior of Germania (πόλεις) with 36 ° 30ˈ longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 52 ° 20 latitude. According to Ptolemy, Aregelia lies between Mersouion and Kalaigia . Due to the age of the source, the existence of the place around ± 150 AD can be assumed.

So far the place could not be localized more precisely. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information given by Ptolemy, localized Aregelia in the area of today's Leipzig using the corrected Ptolemaic coordinates .

Remarks

^ Ptolemy, Geographia 2, 11, 13
↑ Reinhard Wenskus : Areletia. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 398. ( payable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
^ 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 , p. 49.

literature

Reinhard Wenskus : Areletia. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 398. ( 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. ( chargeable 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. 66–69.

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, p. 152ff., Accessed on November 16, 2016

[1] Ptolemy, Geographia 2, 11, 13

[rga-2] Reinhard Wenskus : Areletia. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 398. ( payable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)

[3] 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 , p. 49.