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Carnuntum
Sign in to savethumb|Plan of legionary fortress
Key facts
- Ancient site.map_type
- Austria
- Ancient site.location
- Lower Austria, Austria
- Ancient site.region
- Pannonia Superior
- Ancient site.epochs
- Roman Empire
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.child
- yes
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Part_of
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Western Segment)
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.ID
- 1608bis-071
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Year
- 2021
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Criteria
- Cultural: ii, iii, iv
- Ancient site.name
- Carnuntum
- Ancient site.image
- Carnuntum map Roman city.png
- Ancient site.caption
- The legionary fortress, auxiliary fort and town ()
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Home | Römerstadt Carnuntum
The Roman town of Carnuntum is your gateway to antiquity. Here you can experience completely reconstructed buildings from the time of the Roman Empire.
carnuntum.at →Link to the official site · 5,790 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipium
- Part of
- Pannonian Limes
- Country
- Austria
- Located in
- Lower Austria
- Elevation
- 170
- Capital of
- Pannonia
- Official website
- www.carnuntum.at
- Image
- Carnuntum Petronell.JPG
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- Commons category
- Carnuntum
- Commons gallery
- Carnuntum
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P8168
- Gmina Koźminek
via Wikidata · CC0
~10 min read
Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- History
- Military history
- Legio XV {{lang|la|Apollinaris}}
- Legio X {{lang|la|Gemina}}
- Legio VII {{lang|la|Gemina}}
- Legio XIV {{lang|la|Gemina}}
- History of the city
- Today
- Civilian city
- Heidentor
- Fortress
- Culture
- Gladiator school
- Museum Carnuntinum
- In fiction
- Gallery
- References
- External links
thumb|Plan of legionary fortress
Carnuntum ( according to Ptolemy) was a Roman legionary fortress () and headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD. After the 1st century, it was capital of the Pannonia Superior province. It also became a large city of approximately 50,000 inhabitants.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carnuntum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.