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  Pannonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Today, the term Pannonia is usually used for what is called Transdanubia (Dunántúl) in Hungary and for the northern parts of former Yugoslavia which are located in the Pannonian plain.
From the 4th century BC it was invaded by various Celtic tribes.
The proximity of dangerous barbarian tribes ( Quadi, Marcomanni) necessitated the presence of a large number of troops (seven legions in later times), and numerous fortresses were built on the bank of the Danube.
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 PANNONIANS Articles The Pannonians (Latin Pannonii) was
The Pannonians (Latin Pannonii) was a common name for group of culturaly similar tribes cognate to Illyrians, who inhabited southern part of what was later known as Roman province of Pannonia, south of river Drava (Dravus), and northern part of future Roman province of Dalmatia.
The rest of the Pannonians were not, however, definitely subdued until 9 BC, when their lands were incorporated into province of Illyricum after the bellum Pannonicum, conducted by future emperor Tiberius.
In AD 6, the Pannonians, together with the Dalmatians and other Illyrian tribes, revolted, and were overcome by Tiberius and Germanicus, after a hard-fought campaign which lasted for three years.
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 PANNONIA,
It received its name from the Pannonians, a people probably of Illyrian race who lived there in ancient times.
An insurrection in ad 6 was suppressed, and the Pannonians moved to the northern part of the region, which in ad 10 was made a separate Roman province called Pannonia.
An insurrection in ad 6 was suppressed, and the Pannonians moved.
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 Detail Page
The eventual emperor marched across the country, reducing the Pannonians tribe by tribe.
The larger of the two Pannonian provinces, occupying the west from Carnuntum to Aquincum.
Administratively, Pannonia Superior was better organized than its sister province, possessing at its capital the main seat of government for the legate, who was, realistically, the commander of Upper and Lower Pannonia.
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 Hungary:_Pre-History_and_Early_History encyclopedia and info, forum and guides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
Some scholars try to identify people later mentioned in the written sources -- Thracians east of the Tisza, and Illyrians (Pannonians) west of the Danube -- but this is highly speculative.
The Pannonian (in the southwest) and Thracian presence also seems to have continued, however.
The territory west of the Danube was conquered by the Roman Empire between 35 and 9 BC, and became a province of the Roman Empire under the name of Pannonia.
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 Illyria and Illyricum. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The region that they occupied came to be known as Illyria, and therefore the name has vague limits.
Among the Illyrian peoples were the tribes later called the Dalmatians and the Pannonians; therefore Illyria is sometimes taken in the widest sense to include the whole area occupied by the Pannonians, and thus to reach from Epirus N to the Danube.
More usually Illyria is used to mean only the Adriatic coast N of central Albania and W of the Dinaric Alps.
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 Barbarians
The four full-sized maps cover the entire northern frontier of the Roman Empire, tracing the line of the Rhine and the Danube from the North Sea to the Black Sea, at a scale of 10 miles to the hex.
The 1,000 counters represent legions, cohorts and auxiliaries for the Romans, war bands and mobs of their barbarian adversaries: Germans (22 tribes are represented) Pannonians, Sarmatians, Dacians, Gauls, Vandals and Goths.
Nor is the Empire without internal troubles — as the revolts of the Frisii, the Batavii, and the Pannonians attest.
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 Dio's Roman History Book 55
Drusus, together with his sons, received the title of Germanicus, and he was given the further honours of statues, an arch, and a cenotaph on the bank of the Rhine itself.
Tiberius, while Drusus was yet alive, had overcome the Dalmatians and Pannonians, who had once more begun a rebellion, and he had celebrated the equestrian triumph, and had feasted the people, some on the Capitol and the rest in many other places.
Then at last the remainder of the Pannonians also came to terms, chiefly for the reason that their country was being harried by Silvanus.
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 pannonians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
In 35 BCE, he launched a punitive expedition against the Pannonians with the aim of subduing some of the local tribes, planting a Roman presence and giving necessary...
The Illyrians of the Western Balkans were among these ancient peoples, and the Pannonians of the Western Carpathian Basin were also Illyrians.
This is the tenor of the emperor's writ: That since the common men are now in action 'Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmatians, And that the legions now in Gallia are Full weak to undertake our wars against...
pannonians.networklive.org   (314 words)

  
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From 35 BC to 9 AD the Romans fought with the inhabitants of the Carpathian basin, whom they called the Pannonians.
The Pannonians were finally conquered and added to the empire.
Nagy believes that the name Pannonians does not derive from the Roman god Pan, but rather from Pannon which means 'belonging to Panna" a nickname for the Sumerian goddess of creation, Anu.
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 Amazon.com: Pannonians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
High-resolution palynological analysis in late early-middle Miocene core from the Pannonian Basin, Hungary: climatic changes, astronomical forcing and...
The Pannonian Basin: A Study in Basin Evolution/Book and Maps (Aapg Memoir) by Leigh H. Royden and Ferenc Horvath (Hardcover - Sep 1988)
Pannonian and Pontian Ostracode fauna of Mt. Medvednica: Panonska i pontska fauna ostrakoda Medvednice (Palaeontologia Jugoslavica) by Ana Sokac (Unknown Binding - 1972)
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 Illyricum
The province of Illyricum was subsequently enlarged as the Romans expanded their power in the region through a series of wars known as Pannonian wars (Bellum Pannonicum) 12-9 BC fought against group of peoples known as the Pannonians.
20-35), after a revolt of Pannonians and Dalmatians known a rebellion of Bato (Bellum Batonianum, 6-9) was crushed in 9, the province of Illyricum was dissolved, and its lands were divided between the new provinces of Pannonia in the north and Dalmatia in the south.
The name continued to be used to refer to the region and was later applied by the emperor Diocletian to the Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum, one of four prefectures that he established, which encompassed Pannonia, Noricum, Crete, and the whole Balkan peninsula except Thrace.
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 tribes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
This area between the Drave and Save Rivers was once known as Pannonia and it was believed that Pannonia was named after an Illyrian tribe of the same name, the Pannonians.
However, Pannonia was probably a name applied by the ancient writers for geographical purposes and not necessarily named after a tribe known to have inhabited the region.
The lack of central authority implies that these tribes were independent of each other and not bound to a dominant tribe, which would leave Pannonia as only a place name, nonetheless, those who did occupy this region were called Pannonians.
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 Pax Romana
Following the campaigns of Octavian in the previous decade, Crassus, followed up that success by pushing the frontier borders as far north as the Danube, pacifying the local Pannonians and Illyrians.
Augustus' stepson Tiberius undertook his first major campaign in 15 BC to bring the region to order.
While Tiberius and Drusus were bringing Roman order there, eventually establishing the provinces of Raetia and Noricum, roughly made up of modern Switzerland and Western Austria respectively, the Pannonians were still not settled.
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 Political history of Vojvodina - www.ezboard.com
Pannonians, an Illyrian tribe, were the first know nation who lived in Vojvodina.
This uprising was named: ''Pannonian uprising'', because it started in Sirmium region.
Isolated pockets of Slavs remained throughout the Pannonian basin throughout history.
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 Dio's Roman History Book 49
The Pannonians dwell in Dalmatia along the very bank of the Ister from Noricum to Moesia and lead the most miserable existence of all mankind.
For all that they are considered the bravest of all men of whom we have knowledge; for they are very high-spirited and bloodthirsty, as men who possess nothing that makes an honourable life worth while.
Their name is derived from the fact that their sleeved tunics are made by stitching together pieces of old clothes which they cut up into strips in a way peculiar to themselves and call panni.
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 MSN Encarta - Tiberius
Four years later his mother divorced his father and married the triumvir Octavian, later Emperor Augustus, who had Tiberius carefully educated.
In 20 bc Tiberius commanded an expedition to Armenia, and he subsequently helped subdue the Rhaetians and fought against the Pannonians (12-9 bc).
In 11 bc Tiberius, at his stepfather's command, dissolved his happy marriage to Vipsania Agrippina (died ad 20), daughter of the Roman general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, and married Augustus's daughter Julia, who was Agrippa's widow.
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 Germanicus biography
He was the son of Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (see DRUSUS) and Antonia, daughter of Marcus Antonius and niece of Augustus.
He was adopted in the year 4 A.D. by Tiberius, whom he accompanied in the war waged against the Pannonians and the Dalmatians for the purpose of securing the German frontiers after the defeat of Varus (q.v.; see also ARMINIUS ; GERMANIA).
After having been consul in 12 A.D., he was appointed in the following year to the command of the eight legions on the Rhine.
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 Appian's History of Rome: The Illyrian Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
They have been renowned from the Macedonian period through the Agrianes, who rendered very important aid to Philip and Alexander and are Paeones of Lower Pannonia bordering on Illyria.
When the expedition of Cornelius against the Pannonians resulted disastrously, so great a fear of those people came over all the Italians that for a long time afterwards none of the consuls ventured to march against them.
Concerning the early history of the Illyrians and Pannonians, I have not been able to discover anything further, nor have I found in the Commentaries of Augustus anything earlier in the chapters treating of the Pannonians.
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 I,Claudius Project: Dio LIV.31   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
Therefore he reluctantly chose Tiberius; for his own grandsons were still boys at the time.
He first made him, as he had made Agrippa, divorce his wife, though she was the daughter of Agrippa by a former marriage and was bringing up one child and was about to give birth to another; and betrothed Julia to him, he sent him out against the Pannonians.
He took away the enemy’s arms and sold most of the men of military age into slavery, to be deported from the country.
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 Noricum - Definition up Erdmond.Com
Noricum was incorporated into the Roman Empire in 16 B.C. For a long time the Noricans enjoyed independence under prince s of their own and carried on commerce with the Romans.
In 48 B.C. they took the side of Julius_Caesar (circa 100 B.C.) in the civil war against Pompey ( 106 B.C. In 16 B.C., having joined with the Pannonians in invading Histria, they were defeated by Publius Silius, proconsul of Illyricum.
From this time Noricum is called a province, although not organized as such, but remaining a kingdom with the title regnum Noricum.
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 Roman Emperors - DIR Tacitus
By the labor of the soldiery, he planted vineyards on Mount Alma near Sirmium and on Mount Areum in Moesia Superior.
As for characters, moreover, they were of this sort: Aurelius Maximian, with the cognomen Herculius, was fierce by nature, burning with lust, stolid in his counsels, of rustic and Pannonian stock.
For even now, not far from Sirmium, there is a spot prominent because of a palace constructed there, where his parents once worked wage-earning jobs.
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 Livy: the Periochae of Books 134-142
Peace was made with the Parthians and the standards, which had been lost by Crassus and later by Marc Antony, were received back from their king.
[Tiberius] Nero, the brother of of Drusus, subdued the Dalmatians and Pannonians.
Among other important people fighting over there were Chumstinctus and Avectius, military tribunes from the tribe of the Nervians.
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 Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Book 24
They were a savage, bold, and warlike nation, and were the first after Hercules (to whom that undertaking procured great admiration for his valour, and a belief in his immortality), to pass the unconquered heights of the Alps, and places uninhabitable from excess of cold.
After having subdued the Pannonians, they carried on various wars with their neighbours for many years.
Success encouraging them, they betook themselves, in separate bands, some to Greece, and some to Macedonia, laying waste all before them with the sword.
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 The Histories [of Ancient Rome] by Cornelius Tacitus:book 3
There they debated whether to decide on closing the Pannonian Alps' until such time as their forces were massed behind them in full strength, or whether it would show more spirit to grapple with the enemy in a struggle for Italy.
'In that encounter,' Antonius exclaimed, 'two Pannonian and Moesian cavalry regiments cut their way through the enemy: now sixteen will mass their colours and by their impact and din, by the very clouds of dust they raise, will bury and overwhelm riders and horses that have forgotten battle.
These were the very battlefields which offered them a chance to wash away the stain of past humiliation and regain their credit in men's eyes.
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 Dio's Rome, Vol. 4 - An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the - Reigns of Septimius Severus, ...
Agrippa made the campaign though it already was winter: Marcus Valerius and Publius Sulpicius were the consuls.
As the Pannonians became terror stricken at his approach and showed no further signs of uprising he returned, and on reaching Campania fell sick.
Augustus happened to be giving, under the name of his children, contests of armed warriors at the Panathenaic festival, and when he learned of Agrippa’s condition he left the country.
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