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Headword: *si/r
Adler number: sigma,477
Translated headword: Sir, Sirmion, Sirmium
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A large and populous city holding first place among the Illyrian nation.[1]
Greek Original:
*si/r: mega/lh po/lis kai\ polua/nqrwpos kai\ prwteu/ousa tou= *)illuriw=n e)/qnous.
Notes:
The Suda's 'Sir', otherwise unattested, is evidently a foreshortened version of Sirmion/Sirmium (present-day Sremska Mitrovica in Serbia); Barrington Atlas map 21 grid B5.
[1] Originally settled by Illyrians (and Celts). Contrast the characterisation in Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.: 'a city of [the] Paionians'. NF: it is only 'Illyrian' in the wider Roman usage of Illyricum, as it lay in the later province of Pannonia, among the lands of the Skordiskoi/Scordisci.
Keywords: definition; geography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 December 2002@06:33:00.
Vetted by:
Nicholas Fincher (Added note) on 17 July 2003@06:03:42.
David Whitehead (cosmetics; raised status) on 17 July 2003@08:19:08.
David Whitehead (reworked notes) on 24 December 2013@09:14:23.

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