!!!Rätien

Retia (Latin name Raetia), Roman province. The Romans conquered the 
lands of the  Raetians and  Vindelici after heavy fights in 
15 B.C. The province, which was named after these two tribes 
"Raetia et Vindelicia" chose Augusta Vindelicorum (Augsburg) 
as its capital and included the Alpine foothills, stretching from Lake 
Constance and the Inn River to the lakes in the north-west of Italy, 
and from the St. Gotthard Pass in the west to the Brenner Pass. 
It included lands which are now Austrian territory, i.e. parts of the 
provinces of Vorarlberg and Tirol west of the Ziller Valley and Inntal 
valley. For the defence of the border beyond the River Danube, 
auxiliary troops were stationed along the fortified border, after the 
wars against the  Marcomanni the third Italic League was stationed in 
Regensburg and their commander was at the same time Provincial 
Governor. The Romans lost the lands north of the River Danube to the 
Alemanni in the 3%%sup rd/%  century. Under Emperor Diocletian 
(284-305 B.C.) Retia was divided into "Raetia prima" 
and "Raetia secunda". In 377/78 the Alemanni invaded the 
province, from the mid 5%%sup th/%  century the Alemanni occupied the 
western part of Retia, but some Roman tribes managed to survive in the 
mountain regions.  Noricum,  Pannonia,  Roman Roads,  Roman Era.

!Literature
R. Heuberger, Raetien im Altertum und Mittelalter, 1932 
(new print 1981); H.-J. Ubl, Tirol in roemischer Zeit, in: 
Dehio-Handbuch Tirol, 1980; E. Vonbank, Zur Topographie 
urgeschichtlicher und roemerzeitlicher Fundstaetten in Vorarlberg, in: 
Dehio-Handbuch Vorarlberg, 1983; F. Schoen, Der Beginn der roemischen 
Herrschaft in Raetien, 1986.


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