Rougion

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Rougion , also Rugion ( Greek  ʽΡογιον ; Latin Rugium ) is a place name, which Ptolemaios used in his Geographia (Ptolemaios 2, 11, 12) set of coordinates as one of the places in northern Germania , near the sea ​​coast ( πόλεις) with 42 ° 30 'longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 55 ° 40' latitude.

Linguistic

The similarity with the name of the Rugier people leads historical research to assume that it is their main town. Ptolemy names the river Ouiados merely as the border between Sidinoi and Routiklioi ; However, he does not mention Rugier. Therefore it is usually assumed that the τ in ʽΡουτίκλιοι is a reading for γ , so that the first part would have to be reconstructed as * Rugi -. This reconstruction would be possible because the confusion of the letters τ and γ, which are very similar in the old capitals, occurs very often in the archetype of Geographia and probably already with Ptolemy and in his sources. However , there is no consensus on the interpretation of the * - clii .

Gerhard Rasch suggests differently that Rougion (as in some other cases) could be a peoples name mistaken for a place name by Ptolemy; this suggestion is not supported by other name researchers.

localization

So far, according to Ptolemy, the place in Germania magna could not be reliably located. According to the Ptolemaic information, Hermann Reichert suspects Rougion to be a coastal location south of the Baltic Sea coast on the Ouiados River , one of the Baltic Sea tributaries between the Oder and the Vistula. In the echo of the name Rougion an Rügenwalde (today Darłowo ) an der Wieprza (German: Wipper), Reichert sees an indication of a possible identification of the ancient Rougion with today's Rügenwalde, as the degrees would also fit. According to Reichert, a trade route must have ended in Rougion. At which of the rivers in this area a trading center can be assumed remains to be investigated by the archaeologists.

An interdisciplinary research team led by Andreas Small mountain, the Ptolemaic coordinates 2006-2009 re-examined and interpreted, located at the time Rougion in the field in Miastko (Rummelsburg) which, a riverside town Studnica (Stüdnitz) in Pomerania in Poland is. The Studnica rises south at Miastko and flows northwest of Broczyna (Brotzen) into the navigable Wieprza (Wipper) , which in turn flows into the Baltic Sea at Darłówko (Rügenwaldermünde) .

Remarks

  1. ↑ DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT • LacusCurtius • Ptolemy's Geography - Book II, Chapter 10 • DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT. Retrieved October 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Hermann Reichert :  Rougion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 25, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017733-1 , pp. 387-388. ( available for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
  3. ↑ For example, all Ptolemy manuscripts always write Βελτικη instead of Βελγικη for the province of Gallia Belgica . See Hermann Reichert :  Rougion. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 25, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017733-1 , pp. 387-388. ( available for a fee via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
  4. ^ Rudolf Much : Rugier. In: Johannes Hoops (Ed.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Volume 4. 1st edition. KJ Trübner, Strasbourg 1919, pp. 3–4: deminutive form of Rugii; others see Günther Christian Hansen : Ptolemaios. In: Joachim Herrmann (Ed.): Greek and Latin sources on the early history of Central Europe up to the middle of the 1st millennium of our time . Volume 3. Berlin 1991, p. 569.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Rasch: The geographical names handed down by the ancient authors in the area north of the Alps from the left bank of the Rhine to the Pannonian border, their meaning and their linguistic origin . (= Supplementary volume to RGA 47, 2005 ). Volume 2. Heidelberg 1950, ISBN 978-3-11-017832-6 , p. 55.
  6. ↑ It is probably a sea trading center for amber from the Roman Empire; see. Dietrich Bohnsack , Anna-Barbara Follmann :  Amber and Amber Trade. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1976, ISBN 3-11-006740-4 , pp. 288-298. ( chargeable via GAO , De Gruyter Online)
  7. ^ 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 .

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