Pannonia

(pan-no'ne-ah.) (Anc. Geog.) A large region of S.E. central Europe, b. by the Danube on the N., by Mœsia and Illyricum on the S., E. by the Danube, and W. by Noricum, was populated by a Celtic race, made a Roman p. by Tiberius, B. C. 8, and afterward pa ed under the rule of the Huns, Ostrogoths, Longobardi, Avari, and Ungri, succe ively-from the last-named it became known to the moderns as Hungary. [s. 680]