!!!Teurnia

Teurnia (called Tiburnia in late Antiquity, today St. Peter in Holz, 
4 km west of Spittal an der Drau, Carinthia), hilltop 
settlement (Holzer Berg) populated since 1100 B.C., after about 
50 A.D., Roman city with forum, market basilica, capitoline 
temple, baths, housing terraces and temple dedicated to Grannus, 
Celtic god of healing. From the 4%%sup th/%  century bishopric and 
from the 5%%sup th/%  century fortified capital of the province of  
Noricum, and thus seat of the governor. Besieged by the Goths, peace 
treaty in 467, which secured the territory for Rome, an event 
celebrated in Rome on January 1, 469. Seat of the East-Gothic governor 
and an Arian bishop from 493 to 539. The city was abandoned during the 
Slavic migrations around 610.

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Extensive excavations have revealed a residential building, the 
western gate of the late Antique city walls, the episcopal church with 
hospice, and the church outside the city walls with a mosaic floor in 
the martyr chapel in the south angle of the building. Numerous Roman 
reliefs and several other finds are on display in the Teurnia Museum, 
opened in 1913.

!Literature
F. Glaser, Teurnia: Roemerstadt und Bischofssitz, 1992.


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