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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient Roman province that included present-day eastern Switzerland and western Austria. It was added to the Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus.
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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 1206
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Eutropius and Victor station Valerian’s army in Rhaetia.] * Aurelius Victor says that
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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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.
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Paracelsus brought a squadron of stinkpot-flingers from the snowy mountains of Rhaetia.
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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.
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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 Various
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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
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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[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 Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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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 Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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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. Robert Franklin Pennell
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