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Pannonia

Pannonia (latin Pannonia) was a Roman province south and west of the Danube, established AD 9, divided by Trajan into Superior and Inferior, ending under Hun occupation in the mid-5th century.

Pannonia Inferior (Lower Pannonia) was the eastern Roman Danube frontier province created by Trajan's division of Pannonia (102–107 AD), with capital Aquincum and leading city Sirmium, later split into Valeria and Secunda.

Oct 20, 2026

Pannonia Superior

Pannonia Superior (Upper Pannonia) was the western Roman Danubian province created by Trajan's division of Pannonia (c. 103-106 AD), capital Carnuntum, garrison of three legions, home province of Emperor Septimius Severus, subdivided under Diocletian.

Pannonian Avars

Pannonian Avars: steppe confederation that settled the Carpathian Basin in 567/568 CE and ruled the Avar Khaganate for about 250 years; genetically linked to the Rouran, ended by Charlemagne around 800 CE.

Pannonian Basin

The Pannonian Basin, also called the Carpathian Basin or Kárpát-medence, is a large sedimentary basin centered on Hungary, formed as a back-arc basin during the Miocene.

Pannotia

Pannotia, also known as the Vendian supercontinent, is a hypothetical supercontinent that may have formed around 600 million years ago, with Gondwana at its core and Laurentia, Baltica, and Siberia attached.

Pannus

Pannus (Hickel) is a genus of unicellular cyanobacteria forming free-floating mucilage colonies; type species P. spumosus; three species; placed in Chroococcales, Microcystaceae, closest to Microcystis.

Panobinostat

Panobinostat, sold as Farydak, is an oral HDAC inhibitor developed by Novartis for relapsed multiple myeloma, approved in the United States in 2015 and withdrawn there in 2022.

Oct 15, 2026

Panoptic segmentation

Panoptic segmentation is a computer vision task combining semantic and instance segmentation, proposed by Kirillov and colleagues at Facebook AI Research in 2018, with the panoptic quality metric.

Panopticon

The Panopticon is Jeremy Bentham's circular institutional building design (1791), with a central inspection tower allowing unseen, seemingly constant observation of cells; it was never built to his strict design but shaped later prisons and modern surveillance theory.

Panorama

Panorama: circular 360-degree painting patented by Robert Barker in 1787 (La Nature à Coup d'Oeil), first shown as a view of Edinburgh; nineteenth-century cyclorama rotundas, survivors like Racławice and Murten, and digital terapixel revival.

Sep 19, 2026

Panorama Bar

Panorama Bar is the house-music dancefloor of Berlin's Berghain club, opened in October 2004 in the old control room of a Friedrichshain power station, playing groovy house with sunrise views.

Panoramic imaging

Panoramic imaging is an imaging method capturing fields of view from 100 degrees to a full 360 degrees, using wide-angle optics, rotating cameras, or multi-image stitching.

Panoramic radiograph

A panoramic radiograph, also called orthopantomography (OPT) or OPG, is a rotating dental X-ray technique that captures the teeth, both jaws, and both jaw joints in a single low-dose image.

Panoramic radiography

Panoramic radiography is a dental X-ray examination that captures the entire mouth in a single image, including the teeth, upper and lower jaws, and jaw joints.

Panoramix

Panoramix (Panx, CG9754, Silencio) is a Drosophila melanogaster nuclear protein essential for piRNA-guided transcriptional silencing of transposons, acting downstream of Piwi in the SFiNX complex and required for fertility.

Panormos (Epirus)

Panormos (Epirus), Greek Panormos/Panormus, was an ancient port (limen) on the Ionian coast of Epirus, listed by Ptolemy and Strabo and tentatively identified with Porto Palermo Bay in southern Albania.

Sep 19, 2026

Panormus

Panormus, also known as Panormos, was a Phoenician colony in northern Sicily, established in the 7th century BC and serving as Carthage's main support. It fell to Rome in 254 BC.

Panorpidae

Panorpidae, the common scorpionflies, is the largest family of Mecoptera, about 500 species in Eurasia and North America, named for the male's scorpion-like genitalia.

Panos Cosmatos

Panos Cosmatos, Italian-Canadian director of Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) and Mandy (2018), son of George P. Cosmatos; also The Viewing and Flesh of the Gods with A24.

Sep 21, 2026

Panos Roussos

Panos Roussos (Panagiotis Roussos) is a Greek-trained geneticist and psychiatrist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he directs the Center for Disease Neurogenomics.

Panoz Esperante

The Panoz Esperante is a hand-built, aluminum two-seat sports car produced by Panoz in Hoschton, Georgia from 2000 into the late 2000s, powered by Ford V8 engines.

Panpan girls (パンパンガール)

Panpan girls (パンパンガール) were street prostitutes of occupied Japan, 1945–1952, serving mainly US soldiers; about 70 percent were yo-pan, with RAA facilities, GHQ venereal exams, and the amezo label following.

Panpsychism

Panpsychism is the philosophical view that mentality or experience is fundamental and ubiquitous in nature, held in constitutive, emergentist, micropsychist, cosmopsychist, and Russellian forms; its main objection is the combination problem.

Panpulmonata

Panpulmonata is a clade of euthyneuran gastropods, also called panpulmonates, introduced by Jorger et al. 2010 to replace Pulmonata; it unites traditional pulmonates with Sacoglossa, Acochlidia, Pyramidelloidea, and Glacidorboidea, sister to Euopisthobranchia within Tectipleura.