Ouirounon

Location from Ouirounon to Ptolemy

Ouirounon , also Virunon ( Greek ?? Οὐιρουνον ; Latin Virunum ) is a place name used by Ptolemaios in his Geographia coordinate system created around 150 as one of the places (πienλεις) with 40 ° 30 in northern Germania , near the sea coast ' Longitude ( Ptolemaic degrees of longitude ) and 55 ° 00' latitude. According to Ptolemy, Ouirounon lies between Mounition and Ouirition . Theodor Steche suspects Ouirounon to be in the area of the Sidiner .

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 Ouirounon in the area near Drawsko Pomorskie (Dramburg) in Poland .

Ouirounon is also associated with the name of the city of Waren an der Müritz and could thus be traced back to the tribal name of the Warnen . However, this derivation does not match the Ptolemaic coordinates according to which Ouirounon is east of Suevus .

Individual references / comments

↑ Ptolemy 2:11 , 12 , at http://penelope.uchicago.edu , accessed October 11, 2018
↑ See Marietta Horster : Virunum. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 32, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018387-0 , pp. 445-446. ( available for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
^ Theodor Steche : Old Germania in the geography book of Claudius Ptolemy . Leipzig 1937, p. 152.
↑ 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

Marietta Horster : Virunum. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 32, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018387-0 , pp. 445-446. ( 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. 365–366.

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 Marietta Horster : Virunum. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 32, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018387-0 , pp. 445-446. ( available for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online)

[3] Theodor Steche : Old Germania in the geography book of Claudius Ptolemy . Leipzig 1937, p. 152.

[4] 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 .