Noricum (disambiguation)

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Noricum was an ancient Celtic kingdom, Noricum may also refer to:

Noricum is the Latin name for the Celtic kingdom or federation of tribes that included most of modern Austria and part of Slovenia. In the first century AD, it became a province of the Roman Empire. Its borders were the Danube to the north, Raetia and Vindelicia to the west, Pannonia to the east and southeast, and Italia to the south. The kingdom was founded around 400 BC, and had its capital at the royal residence at Virunum on the Magdalensberg.

Bythiospeum noricum, snail species
Noricum scandal, an Austrian arms export scandal
Noricum, a part of the surface of the asteroid 21 Lutetia

Bythiospeum noricum is a species of very small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.

The Noricum scandal, or Noricum affair was an Austrian arms export scandal centering on the illegal export of weapons to Iran, by VOEST subsidiary Noricum during the 1980s. It was named after the Roman geographical area Noricum.

Lutetia is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt of an unusual spectral type. It measures about 100 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered in 1852 by Hermann Goldschmidt, and is named after Lutetia, the Latin name of Paris.

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