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

The Vandals and Alans might also about this time extend themselves into Noricum.

From Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John by Sir Isaac Newton

It is often the same in river sand, as in Noricum.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert

The wide extent of territory which is included between the Inn, the Danube, and the Save,—Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, the Lower Hungary, and Sclavonia,—was known to the ancients under the names of Noricum and Pannonia.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Henry Hart Milman

In 16 B. C. the district of Noricum, i. e., modern Tyrol and Salzburg, was occupied by Publius Silius Nerva, in consequence of a raid of the Noricans into the Istrian peninsula.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

He offered guides to conduct them out of Noricum; and the guides misled them.

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

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