Rhaetia

• “Some of their tribes settled in Rhaetia, under the protection of Theodoric; whose successors ceded the colony and their country to the grandson of Clovis.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “Eutropius and Victor station Valerian’s army in Rhaetia.] * Aurelius Victor says that”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “Under Augustus the Roman Empire gained more territory than at any other point in its history (northern Spain, the Balkans, Galatia, Egypt, Pannonia, Rhaetia and Noricum) and growth continued under later emperors — prestige required each emperor to acquire some new territory.”

  Matthew Yglesias » What Would The Roman Empire Do?

• “Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot-flingers from the snowy mountains of Rhaetia.”

  The Battle of the Books

• “He conquered, however, partly in person, and partly by his lieutenants, Cantabria [136], Aquitania and Pannonia [137], Dalmatia, with all Illyricum and Rhaetia [138], besides the two Alpine nations, the”

  The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus

• “They were so successful as to acquire enough territory to form two new provinces, Rhaetia and Noricum (15 B.C.).”

  Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.

• “Rhaetia, and proceeding westward, with Gaul and its inhabitants on the left, it bounds the Celts on the right, and finally empties into the ocean.”

  Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).

• “Their religious belief was simple and fervent; the Goths, as Arians, had rejected the supremacy of the Pope; and now there came secretly teachers from the East, through Bulgaria, Bosnia, and Hungary, even into Rhaetia, and thence to these fastnesses of the Alps. The mind of men, thus left free, developed itself according to the different character of the races.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861

• “[221] Augusta Vindelicorum, now Augsburg; a famous Roman colony in the province of Rhaetia, of which Vindelica was then a part.”

  The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus

• “If we now follow the course of the Danube, as we before did that of the Rhine, we first meet with the Hermunduri; [219] a people faithful to the Romans, [220] and on that account the only Germans who are admitted to commerce, not on the bank alone, but within our territories, and in the flourishing colony [221] established in the province of Rhaetia.”

  The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus

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