Raetia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: H. Bender Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
An ancient region comprising the central Alps during Roman times, spanning parts of the modern countries of Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland with Liechtenstein. NB the Roman administrative province of Raetia, which has its own place resource in Pleiades.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/187523
- Augusta Vindelicum/Aelia Augusta connection Raetia (unspecified date range)
- Cambodunum (Raetia) part of (regional) Raetia (unspecified date range)
region
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 19 B3 Raetia
See also the Roman province of Raetia (pleiades:981547).
The Raeti who inhabited this region were a confederation of Alpine tribes and they inhabited the central area of Switzerland and the Tyrol from ca. 500 B.C. There are some claims that the Raeti were in some way descended from the Etruscans, but this claim is difficult to substantiate.
H. Bender, G. Moosbauer, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, M. Puhane, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Raetia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/187523> [accessed: 10 October 2024]
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