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Nov 24, 2020 · Today visitors to Carnuntum can explore the remains of this Roman city – including the ruins of the military camp, amphitheatre and civilian and religious buildings – while also discovering the many full reconstructions built at the site.
- Sarah Roller
Carnuntum once ranked among the most important cities of the Roman province Pannonia. Built as a stronghold against the Barbaricum on the other side of the Danube Limes, it also was a crossover point of the Amber Road and occupied a major strategic, political and economic role.
Carnuntum, the most important ancient Roman legionary camp of the upper Danube frontier, situated at Petronell, 20 miles (32 km) east of Vienna. It was the emperor Tiberius’s base in his attacks on the Marcomanni (ad 6), although a fort for one legion was first erected under the emperor Claudius.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Almost all of the Roman town of Carnuntum, 25 miles east of Vienna, Austria, is preserved under fields and vineyards. The town’s history began in A.D. 40, when Roman soldiers of the Legio...
May 21, 2019 · Situated out near the border between Vienna and Bratislava, the ancient Roman city of Carnuntum was once even larger than Vienna. Also known as Römerstadt Carnuntum, this collection of Roman sites is sprinkled throughout the modern town of Petronell-Carnuntum.
Feb 2, 2002 · According to Wolfgang Neubauer, director of the University of Vienna’s Institute for Archaeological Science, experts have located the forum of Carnuntum, a Roman camp about 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of Vienna, that dates to 6 AD, and which is considered to be one of the empire’s most strategic strongholds north of the Alps.
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Carnuntum takes a highly prominent position along the Danube Limes. Protected by a legionary camp and an auxiliary troops' camp, the capital of the Roman province of Upper Pannonia, as the seat of the governor, rose to become a metropolis with around 50,000 inhabitants and an area of 10 km².
