Sopianae

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

SOPIA´NAE a town in the central part of Lower Pannonia, on the road from Mursa to Sabaria ( It. Ant. pp. 231, 232, 264, 267), was according to Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammian. 28.1) the birthplace of the emperor Maximinus. Its site is occupied by the modern Fünfkirchen.
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