Bikourgion

Bicourgion location on Ptolemy map

Bikourgion (Βικούργιον), also Bicurgium (Latin) is a place name that is mentioned in the Atlas Geographia (2, 11, 14) compiled by Ptolemy around 150 . The place, which according to Ptolemy was in the interior of Germania, has not yet been identified with certainty. For example, the Bickenriede near Mühlhausen an der Unstrut or the Celtic fortress Steinsburg near Römhild are seen as that bicurgium. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, localized the place based on mathematical calculations in the area of ​​today's Jena in Thuringia.

Remarks

1. ↑ See Sabine Rieckhoff , Jörg Biel : The Celts in Germany . Theiss, Stuttgart 2001, p. 457

literature

• Reinhard Wenskus :  Bikourgion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1976, ISBN 3-11-006740-4 , p. 541 (for a fee 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. 97-99.

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