It had been taken as an model of democratic peoples election of a State ruler for the United States Constitution by Thomas Jefferson.
Some scholars think that Noreia can be identified with the excavated Celtic-Roman settlement on the Magdalensberg in Carinthia, Austria.
The German name Dürnbach also literally means 'dry creek' and may be compared to similar names in Carinthia, such as the hamlet of Dürnfeld in the Municipality of Magdalensberg.