Christian feast day: Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century.

Pannonia

Province of the Roman Empire (8/9 - 433 AD)

Pannonia was a province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, on the west by Noricum and upper Italy, and on the southward by Dalmatia and upper Moesia. It included the modern regions western Hungary, western Slovakia, eastern Austria, northern…