Redingouinon

Redingouinon
Greek Surname	Ῥεδιγγούινον
Lat. Surname	Redinguinum
Polis	63. Polis in Germania magna
ptol. climate	Ptolemaic climate III, inner zone south
ptol. map	Germania magna
Dating	around 150 AD
ptol. length	38 ° 30 ′ longitude
ptol. width	50 ° 30 'latitude
Polis before	Maroboudon
Polis afterwards	Nomisterion

Redingouinon , in Latin Redinguinum ( Greek  Ῥεδιγγούινον ), is a place name, which in the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemaios as one of the places in the east of the southern Germania magna and near the Danube (πόλεις) with 38 ° 30 ′ longitude and 50 ° '30' width is specified. According to Ptolemy, Redingouinon lies between Maroboudon and Nomisterion . Because of the age of the source, the existence of the place around 150 AD can be assumed.

localization

So far the place could not be located safely. An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Little Mountain, the newly examined the details of Ptolemy, opposes any localization in Bohemia (in Marobud Marcomannic Empire ) and locates Redingouinon by the transformed antique coordinate with today's town Louny (German: Laun) on the banks of the Eger in the northern Bohemian region of Ústecký in the Czech Republic .

Archaeological excavations in the eastern area of ​​the city showed a Celtic settlement there. Excavations and findings also show that later Marcomanni settled in the territory of the city. The first evidence of Slavic settlement, however, comes from the 6th century. The settlement was on the trade route from Prague to Dresden and Nuremberg to Dresden at a ford through the Eger, which was usable until the flood times.

Remarks

1. ^ Ptolemy, Geographia 2,11,14 ( online ).
2. ↑ See Hermann Reichert :  Redingouinon. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 24, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017575-4 , pp. 303–304 (for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online).
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 Buchgesell., Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-24525-3 , p. 55.

literature

• Hermann Reichert :  Redingouinon. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 24, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017575-4 , pp. 303–304 (for a fee 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 ( 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. 235–237.

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