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Virunum
46.6992° N, 14.3650° E
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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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Foundation under Claudius
1st century AD
Early antiquarian investigations
18th–19th centuries
Seat of provincial governor until mid-2nd century
2nd century AD
Bishopric established
AD 343
Late 20th-century fieldwork
Late 20th century
Systematic excavations to 1931
1931
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