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Pan·no·ni·a

 (pə-nō′nē-ə)
An ancient Roman province of central Europe including present-day western Hungary and the northwest Balkan Peninsula. Its people were finally subjugated by Rome in ad 9, although the province was abandoned after 395.
Pan·no′ni·an adj. & n.
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Pannonia

(pəˈnəʊnɪə)
n
(Placename) a region of the ancient world south and west of the Danube: made a Roman province in 6 ad
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Pan•no•ni•a

(pəˈnoʊ ni ə)

n.
an ancient Roman province in central Europe, S and W of the Danube, whose territory is now mostly in Hungary and Yugoslavia.
Pan•no′ni•an, adj., n.
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