Condorgis

Kondorgis ( Greek  Κονδοργίς ) is a place name that is given in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places (πόλεις) lying in the southern Germania magna along the Danube with 37 ° 15 ′ longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 48 ° 30 ′ latitude . According to Ptolemy, the condorgis lies between Phourgisatis and Mediolanion . 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, located condorgis based on the transformed ancient coordinates in the area of ​​today's Jihlava (Iglau) in Kraj Vysočina (Bohemian-Moravian Highlands) in the Czech Republic . The city is located at the mouth of the Jihlávka and the Jihlava River , which used to separate Bohemia and Moravia .

Remarks

1. ↑ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,15
2. ^ Hermann Reichert :  Kondorgis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 17, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016907-X , pp. 180–181, (for a fee 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. 59.

literature

• Hermann Reichert :  Condorgis. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 17, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016907-X , pp. 180–181, (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. 142–144.

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