Mediolanion (Danube)

Mediolanion
Greek Surname	Μεδιολάνιον
Lat. Surname	Mediolanium
Polis	88. Polis in Germania magna
ptol. climate	Ptolemaic Climate IV (Danube Zone)
ptol. map	Germania magna
Dating	around 150 AD
ptol. length	38 ° 00 ′
ptol. width	47 ° 10 ′
River system	Danube
Location after Kleineberg	near Korneuburg in the Weinviertel in Lower Austria at a Danube crossing
Polis before	Condorgis
Polis afterwards	Phelikia

Mediolanion - in Latin Mediolanium ; Greek  Μεδιολάνιον - is a place name that is given in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the west of the southern Germania magna and along the Danube (πόλεις) with 38 ° 00 'longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 47 ° 10' latitude . According to Ptolemy, Mediolanion lies on the Danube between Condorgis and Phelikia . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed. So far, the ancient site is not considered to be safely localized.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined the information provided by Ptolemy, uses the transformed ancient coordinates to locate Mediolanion in the town of Korneuburg , which is located in the Weinviertel in Lower Austria at a Danube crossing . and thus confirms Radan Květs and Stanislav Řehák's research results.

Remarks

1. ↑ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,15
2. ^ 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.
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.
4. ↑ Radan Květ, Stanislav Řehák: A new statement on the Greater Germania of Ptolemy . In: Regensburg contributions to regional geography and spatial planning . Volume 8th year 2002, pp. 41–56.

literature

• 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. 275-276.

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