Ouirition

Location from Ouirition to Ptolemy

Ouirition also Virition ( Greek Οὐρίτιον ; Latin Viritium ) is a place name that Ptolemyos used in his Geographia set of coordinates created around 150 as one of the places (πόλεις) in northern Germania , near the sea coast , with a length of 41 ° 00 '( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 54 ° 30 'latitude.

localization

So far the ancient place could not be located with certainty. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Kleineberg, who re-examined and interpreted the Ptolemaic coordinates from 2006 to 2009, is currently locating Ouirition in the area near Czlopa (Schloppe) in Poland . After this localization, Ouirition was on an important west-east route of the Germania magna, the Hellweg .

Individual references / comments

↑ Ptolemy 2:11 , 12 , at http://penelope.uchicago.edu , accessed October 11, 2018
↑ See Hermann Reichert : Ouirition. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017351-4 , pp. 411-412. ( available for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
↑ See Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch , Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decryption of Ptolemy´s "Atlas of the Oikumene" . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 .

literature

Hermann Reichert : Ouirition. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017351-4 , pp. 411-412. ( chargeable 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. ( chargeable 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. 364–365.

Web links

Edition of Geographike Hyphegesis with translation and map of Germania magna , accessed on June 17, 2015
Google Earth in ancient times. In: Der Spiegel. 39/2010, accessed June 17, 2015

[1] Ptolemy 2:11 , 12 , at http://penelope.uchicago.edu , accessed October 11, 2018

[rga-2] See Hermann Reichert : Ouirition. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 22, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017351-4 , pp. 411-412. ( available for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online)

[3] See Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch , Dieter Lelgemann : Germania and the island of Thule. The decryption of Ptolemy´s "Atlas of the Oikumene" . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 .