Noricum

American  

[nawr-i-kuhm, nor-] / ˈnɔr ɪ kəm, ˈnɒr- /

noun

1. an ancient Roman province in central Europe, roughly corresponding to the part of Austria south of the Danube.

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Noricum British  

/ ˈnɒrɪkəm /

noun

1. an Alpine kingdom of the Celts, south of the Danube: comprises present-day central Austria and parts of Bavaria; a Roman province from about 16 _bc

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Noricum

Al′boin, King of the Lombards, succeeded his father Audoin in 561, and reigned in Noricum and Pannonia.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

In the year 113 B.C. there appeared to the north of the Adriatic, on the right bank of the Danube, an immense multitude of barbarians, ravaging Noricum and threatening Italy.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by M. (François) Guizot

The intentional preparation of it, as a different species, seems to have taken its rise among the Chalybes, a people of Asia Minor, and it was afterwards obtained from Noricum.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

The Christian faith had been planted in that country two hundred years before, by St. Severinus, the apostle of Noricum.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler

Now I meditated over the thousands of trappers and other hunters who must scour the forests of Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, Illyricum, Pannonia, Noricum, Rhaetia and Germany to gather such a supply of beasts for exhibition.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by Edward Lucas White