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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.


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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By this time the Romans had built, in their provinces of Rh�tia, Noricum and Pannonia, south of the Danube, the cities of Augusta Vindelicorum, now Augsburg, and Vindobona, now Vienna, with another on the north bank of the Danube, where Ratisbon stands at present.

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The Roman provinces of Rh�tia, Noricum and Pannonia were formed out of the conquered territory.

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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.

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The epitaphs of these obscure toilers have been brought to light in every part of the Roman world, in remote towns in Spain, Gaul, Noricum, Dacia, and North Africa, as well as in the ancient centres of refinement in Italy or the Greek East.

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

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