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  Pannonia
Pannonia is an ancient country bounded north and east by the Danube, conterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia.
Pannonia was located in the territory of present-day countries: Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Slovakia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Pannonia superior was under the consular legate, who had formerly administered the single province, and had three legions under his control: Pannonia inferior at first under a praetorian legate with a single legion as garrison, after Marcus Aurelius under a consular legate, still with only one legion.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/pannonia.html   (754 words)

  
 History of Croatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The people settled during the first half of the sixth century in Pannonia Inferior, now Lower Hungary, and on the eastern banks of the Danube.
Here they struggled for their very existence against the Avars, a bloodthirsty people, and then crossed the Drave to Pannonia Superior and Dalmatia, provinces of the Roman Empire, to which they gave the name of Croatia.
Heraclius, the Byzantine emperor, was compelled to abandon his provinces in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula.
www.historyofnations.net /europe/croatia.html   (1436 words)

  
 Roman Emperors - DIR Tacitus
Decius, from Pannonia Inferior, was born at Bubalia, and ruled thirty months.
Alexander was a Phrygian in origin, inferior in the face of hardship through the fault of old age.
Disabled in the feet and hands through a malady of the joints, he was fortunate in temperateness of climate, in an abundance of harvests, and in no terror from barbarians, things which would have been still greater indeed, if he had promoted governorsof provinces not for a price, but on the basis of judgment.
www.roman-emperors.org /epitome.htm   (12323 words)

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