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Virunum
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Virunum

Ancient city · Austria

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
46.699, 14.365
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: Roman settlement in the province of Noricum (modern-day Austria)

History

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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