Virunum
Sign in to savethumb|Virunum's Amphitheatre, southern part, near Maria Saal, with Zollfeld and Ulrichsberg thumb|The Amphitheatre of Virunum, northern part thumb|Carriage (to the underworld?) from a Roman tomb at Virunum. Today on the south wall of Maria Saal village church Claudium Virunum was a Roman city in the province of Noricum, on today's Zollfeld in the Austrian State of Carinthia. Virunum may also have been the name of the older Celtic-Roman settlement on the hilltop of Magdalensberg nearby. Virunum (Virunensis) is today a Catholic titular see.
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- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Austria
- Located in
- Maria Saal
- Image
- Maria Saal Zollfeld Virunum Arena Suedteil 22092006 02.jpg
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- Commons category
- Virunum
- located in/on physical feature
- Zollfeld
- street address
- Zollfeld
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- culture
- Ancient Rome
- P8168
- David M. O'Connell
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Description
- Sanctuaries and secular public buildings
- Modern use
- The "Prunnerkreuz"
- Titular archbishops of Virunum
- See also
- Footnotes
- Literature
- External links
thumb|Virunum's Amphitheatre, southern part, near Maria Saal, with Zollfeld and Ulrichsberg thumb|The Amphitheatre of Virunum, northern part thumb|Carriage (to the underworld?) from a Roman tomb at Virunum. Today on the south wall of Maria Saal village church Claudium Virunum was a Roman city in the province of Noricum, on today's Zollfeld in the Austrian State of Carinthia. Virunum may also have been the name of the older Celtic-Roman settlement on the hilltop of Magdalensberg nearby. Virunum (Virunensis) is today a Catholic titular see.
== History ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Virunum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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