[nawr-i-kuh
m, nor-] 
| an ancient Roman province in central Europe, roughly corresponding to the part of Austria south of the Danube. |
| Nor·i·cum (nôr'ĭ-kəm, nŏr'-) An ancient country and province of the Roman Empire south of the Danube River in present-day Austria west of Vienna. It was incorporated into the Roman Empire in the first century B.C. and prospered as a frontier colony until it was overrun by Germanic peoples in the fifth century A.D. |