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Vindobona (Latin pronunciation: [wɪnˈdɔbɔna]; from Gaulish windo-"white" and bona "base/bottom") was a Roman military camp (or castra) in the province of Pannonia, located on the site of the modern city of Vienna in Austria.
- c. 100
- X Gemina
- 103–433
- Roman fortification
Vienna grew from the Roman settlement known as Vindobona to be an important trading site in the 11th century. It became the capital of the Babenberg dynasty and subsequently of the Austrian Habsburgs, under whom it became one of Europe's cultural hubs.
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Vienna is the cultural, economic, and political center of the country, the fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the cities on the Danube river.
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Roman Vindobona. Like many other cities of Continental Europe, Vienna originated in ancient Roman times. In the first century AD, the Romans set up a military camp, called Vindobona, which formed part of the large number of similar facilities along the Limes frontier.
Lumea Europa Europa Centrală Austria Viena. Viena este capitala Austriei, precum și cel mai mare oraș din aceasta țară, centru politic, cultural și economic. Este al zecelea oraș ca populație al Uniunii Europene. Orașul a fost fondat cca. în 500 i.e.n., fiind inițial o așezare celtică (Vindobona).
In 16–15 bce the Romans, under the future emperor Tiberius, occupied the foothills of the Alps, and in the next century the Celtic town of Vindobona (Celtic: “White Field”; later to become Vienna) became a strategic Roman garrison town. (The Roman camp is believed to have covered the area around the present Hoher Market.)
During the time of the reformation Vienna was a Protestant city, but in the times of the Counter Reformation, Austria and Vienna were mostly Roman Catholic. In 1529, Vienna was first besieged by the army of the Ottoman Empire , which had a border only 150 km east of Vienna.
