Peuke (island)
In ancient geography, Peuke (also Peuce) was an island overgrown with spruce trees in the Danube Delta in what is now Romania .
Apollonios of Rhodes reports that the island of Peuke was originally formed by a large sandbank, between the current arms of the Danube Sf. Gheorghe (then Hieron stoma) and Sulina (then Naracon stoma). The island was about the size of the island of Rhodes and disappeared in the early Middle Ages when the Danube changed its course in the estuary.
Peuke was inhabited , among others, by the Peukinern (also Peucini), a branch of the Bastarnen . Tacitus names all Bastarnen in 98 AD after this sub-tribe Peukiner.
The historian Arrian of Nicomedia reports that the Thracian king Syrmos and his tribe, the Triballians , lived in 335 BC. BC sought refuge on this island when he was pursued by Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army during his Balkan campaign . Alexander brought ships to the Danube in order to use them to attack the island. The attempts failed because of the rapid current, steep banks and violent defenses.
Alaric I , the first known King of the Visigoths and after 800 years the first military leader to conquer Rome in 410 AD , was born on the island of Peuke at the southern mouth of the Danube.
literature
- Christo Danoff : Peuke. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Col. 678.
Individual evidence
- ^ Herder's Conversations Lexicon. Freiburg im Breisgau 1856, Volume 4, p. 510. URL: http://www.zeno.org/nid/20003468011
- ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 1, 2, 2 and 1, 3, 3-4; on this Siegfried Lauffer : Alexander the Great. dtv, Munich 1978, 3rd edition 1993, ISBN 3-423-04298-2 , p. 45.
- ^ Georg Waitz : Alarich I. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 173 f .; Herwig Wolfram : The Goths: from the beginning to the middle of the sixth century . 4th edition Munich 2001, p. 150.