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Rittium

Ῥίττιον

Rittium (Ῥίττιον), a place in the south-east of Lower Pannonia, situated close to the Danube, and on the road leading to Taurunum. (It. Ant. p. 242; Ptol. 2.16.5; Tab. Peut.) It contained a garrison of Dalmatian cavalry. (Not. Imp., where the name is mis-spelt Rictium.) According to Muchar (Noricum, i. p. 265), its site is now occupied by the town of Titel.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.