ABSTRACT
The annexation of the regnum Noricum in 15 BC resulted in the introduction of a Roman administration. The Norican royal house may have died out under Augustus; in view of the continuously pro-Roman policy of the regnum up till the annexation the possibility that it was removed by force may be almost certainly excluded. Detachments of the Pannonian legions are in fact attested in Noricum under Augustus and Tiberius. One may be justified in seeing 'House of Representatives' building-complex, which was constructed shortly after 15 BC, as the seat of the official whose task it was to act as the highest authority for the administration of the country, until the Magdalensberg was evacuated under Claudius. The tribes of the eastern Alps, who had formed the regnum under the leadership of the Norici before the Roman annexation, continued to exist after 15 BC as communities of the native population, as civitates peregrinae.
