SOPIA´NAE
SOPIA´NAE a town in the central part of Lower Pannonia, on the road from Mursa to Sabaria (
It. Ant. pp. 231, 232, 264, 267), was according to Ammianus Marcellinus (
28.1) the birthplace of the emperor Maximinus. Its site is occupied by the modern
Fünfkirchen. [
L.S]