Kalisia

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Kalisia in the Germania magna, to the east, tribe of the Lygii, classical mapping of the 19th century

Kalisia , in Latin Calisia ; ( Greek  Καλισία ), is a place name that is given in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the interior of the Germania magna north in the east ( π magλεις ) with 43 ° 45 'longitude (Ptolemaic longitudes) and 52 ° 20' latitude . According to Ptolemy, Kalisia lies between Arsonion and Getidava . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

The place is considered to be safely located. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, confirmed the previous localization of Kalisia in today's Kalisch ( Kalisz ) in the Greater Poland Voivodeship in Poland using the corrected ancient coordinates . The polis at a crossing of the Prosna was apparently a station on Bernsteinstrasse .

The polis on the Prosna was thus one of the places known to the Greeks and Romans for their trade in amber from the Mare Suebicum ( Baltic Sea ). Large quantities of Roman coins were found in the north, where the branches ( Balts ) hid the amber on their coast. The amber was transported on the amber roads to Italy, Greece and even to Egypt.

The location of the polis in the area of ​​the Warth landscape on the Oder creates a possible connection with the settlement area of ​​the Oder-Warthe group or the early Przeworsk culture . This archaeological culture links historical research in general with the early Vandal and Burgundy as well as with the Lugians . Kalisia is, if one compares the location of Ptolemy with his list of peoples, most likely in the area of ​​the Lugians.

Remarks

  1. ^ Ptolemy, Geographia 2, 11, 13
  2. ↑ Reinhard Wenskus :  Arsonion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7 , p. 437, ( payable via GAO , De Gruyter Online).
  3. ^ Theodor Steche : Old Germania in the geography book of Claudius Ptolemy . Leipzig 1937, p. 147.
  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. 49.
  5. ^ Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch, Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decoding of Ptolemy's "Atlas of the Oikumene". Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , pp. 50–51.
  6. ^ Corinna Scheungraber, Friedrich E. Grünzweig: The old Germanic toponyms and un-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 , p. 109.
  7. ↑ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,10
  8. ^ Hermann Reichert :  Kalisia. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 16, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016782-4 , pp. –179, ( available for a fee from GAO , De Gruyter Online).

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