Roman History in Austria (1800 - 2000)

Human habitation of current Austria can be traced back to the first farming communities of the early Stone Age (Paleolithic era). In the late Iron Age it was occupied by a Celtic culture (c. 800 BC), the first organised nation state being the Celtic Kingdom of Noricum dating from c. 800 to 400 BC. This subsequently became incorporated into the Roman Empire's lands to the south of the Danube at the end of the 1st century BC, and was incorporated as the Province of Noricum around 40 AD. The most important Roman settlement was that at Carnuntum. Later, in the 6th century, another Germanic people, the Bavarii occupied these lands until it fell under the Frankish Empire in the 9th century