What is "pannonia"

ancient name of the region roughly corresponding to modern Hungary.

Pannonia was an ancient province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. Pannonia was located over the territory of the present-day western Hungary, eastern Austria, northern Croatia, north-western Serbia, northern Slovenia, western Slovakia and northern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Pannonia was a Byzantine province, which existed in present-day Syrmia region of Serbia in the 6th century. Its capital was Sirmium (modern-day Sremska Mitrovica).

It differed significantly in its area from the Roman province of Pannonia, and it was subordinate to the Diocese of Dacia.

Pannonia may refer to:

• the Pannonian Basin, a geomorphological feature and historical region in East-Central Europe.

Historical territories in the Pannonian Basin:

• Pannonia, a historical Roman province
• Diocese of Pannonia, Roman diocese
• Pannonia, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine province
• Duchy of Pannonia, a Slavic principality vassal to the Franks that existed in the 8th and 9th century
• the territory of the medieval kingdom of Hungary was contemporarily still known as Pannonia, the king of Hungary being called rex Pannoniae (or Pannonicorum) in medieval Latin.

In science:

• 1444 Pannonia, an asteroid
• Pannonian (stage), the Paratethys domain (Central Europe, west Asia) in the stratigraphy
• Pannonia, a part of the surface of the asteroid 21 Lutetia

Other:

• Pannonie, an old Cistercian farm near Rocamadour in France, and a castle built in the 15th and 18th century
• PannóniaFilm, the largest animation studio in Hungary
• Pannónia, a brand of motorcycles manufactured in Hungary
• Pannonia Federal Credit Union, a non-profit financial institution chartered in 1938 in the greater Philadelphia area