Noricum mediterraneum

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The Illyrian Provinces around AD 400

Noricum mediterraneum ( Binnennoricum ) was a Roman province created in the early 4th century by the division of the former province of Noricum .

Geographical breakdown

Noricum mediterraneum belonged to the Dioecesis Pannoniae (from 395 Dioecesis Illyrici occidentale ) and included the areas of today's East Tyrol , Carinthia and Styria . The main town was Virunum in what is now the Zollfeld near Maria Saal in Carinthia.

history

Noricum mediterraneum was created in the course of the Diocletian reforms in the early 4th century through the division of the former province of Noricum . In 407 Alaric's Visigoths occupied the province and claimed it as a settlement area for themselves, as "it would be largely devastated and would only bring in little tax income." When this was rejected, Alaric invaded Italy, marched on Rome and stormed the city. The provincial capital of Noricum Mediterraneum was moved to Tiburnia . The exact time is unknown, but it must have occurred before the Ostrogothic siege of Tiburnia in 467. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire , remnants of the Roman, later Ostrogothic administration remained in Inner Noricum for a while until the former province was finally settled by new population groups, the Avars , Slavs and Baiuwares .

See also

literature

  • I. Bóna: The Huns in Noricum and Pannonia - their story in the context of the Great Migration . In: D. Straub (Hrsg.): Severin between Roman times and migrations . 1982, pp. 179-200.
  • R. Bratoz: Severinus von Noricum and his time - historical notes . 1983.
  • Helmut Castritius : The border defense in Raetien and Noricum in the 5th century AD - A contribution to the end of antiquity . In: H. Wolfram u. A. Schwarz (Ed.): The Bavarians and their neighbors Volume 1. 1985, pp. 17-28.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gernot Piccottini: Virunum ; with contributions by H. Dolenz, F. Glaser and R. Jernej. In: M. Šašel Kos, P. Scherrer (eds.): The Autonomous Towns in Noricum and Pannonia - The autonomous towns in Noricum and Pannonia: Noricum , Situla 40 (2002) pp. 103-134.
  2. ↑ Heiko Steuer , Volker Bierbrauer (ed.): Hill settlements between antiquity and the Middle Ages from the Ardennes to the Adriatic. With the assistance of Michael Hoeper. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020235-9 , ( Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde supplementary volumes 58).