| Provincia Pannonia Superior | |||||||||||
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| Province of theRoman Empire | |||||||||||
| 103 AD–3rd century | |||||||||||
.svg) The province of Pannonia Superior within the Roman Empire, c. 125 AD | |||||||||||
| Capital | Carnuntum | ||||||||||
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• Established | 103 AD | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 3rd century | ||||||||||
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Pannonia Superior (transl. 'Upper Pannonia') was aRoman province created from the division ofPannonia in 103 AD, its capital inCarnuntum. It overlapped in territory with modern-dayHungary,Croatia,Austria,Slovakia, andSlovenia.
It was as governor of the province thatSeptimius Severus made his bid for the Roman Imperial throne in April 193 CE.
In 308 EmperorDiocletian chaired a historic meeting with his co-emperorsMaximian andGalerius inCarnuntum, to solve the rising tensions within theTetrarchy. Diocletian and Maximian were both present on 11 November 308, to see Galerius appointLicinius to beAugustus in place ofValerius Severus, who had died at the hands ofMaxentius. Galerius ordered Maximian, who had attempted to return to power after his own retirement, to step down permanently. At Carnuntum people begged Diocletian to return to the throne, to resolve the conflicts that had arisen throughConstantine the Great's rise to power and Maxentius' usurpation.[1] Diocletian's reply: "If you could show thecabbage that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn't dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed."[2]
Some of the important cities in Upper Pannonia were:
The northern part of the 8th-centuryFrankishMarch of Pannonia was also called Upper Pannonia.The name can be found even much later in a similar, but wider, meaning. E.g.Otto von Freising (Chron. 6, 15) uses it to refer toAustria (i.e. Austria proper) in the 12th century.
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