Raetia or Rhaetia (/ ˈriːʃ (i) ə / REE-sh (ee-)ə, Latin: [ˈrae̯.ti.a]) was a province of the Roman Empire named after the Rhaetian people.

Raetia Curiensis (in Latin; German: Churrätien, Romansh: Currezia) was an early medieval province in Central Europe, named after the preceding Roman province of Raetia prima which retained its Romansh culture during the Migration Period, while the adjacent territories in the north were largely settled by Alemannic tribes.

Raetia, ancient Roman province comprising Vorarlberg and Tirol states in present-day Austria, the eastern cantons of Switzerland, and parts of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg states in Germany. Its native inhabitants were probably of mixed Illyrian and Celtic stock.

The Roman province of Raetia was named after these people. Ancient sources characterise the Raeti as Etruscan people who were displaced from the Po valley by the Gauls and took refuge in the valleys of the Alps.

Nov 24, 2021 · The province of Raetia was annexed to the Roman Empire in 15 BCE by the Roman commander and future emperor Tiberius (r. 14-37 CE). Like its neighbor Noricum, it did not receive a permanent legion of its own – Legio III Italica – until the reign of Marcus Aurelius.

Information about the Roman province of Raetia. Beginning around 800 BC, the Raetians started to colonize the area now known as Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and western Austria where the Helvetians were already prominent.

Raetia (/ˈriːʃə/ or /ˈriːʃiə/, Latin: [rajtia], also spelled Rhaetia) was a province of the Roman Empire, named after the Rhaetian (Raeti or Rhaeti) people. It bordered on the west with the country of the Helvetii, on the east with Noricum, on the north with Vindelicia, on the west with Transalpine Gaul and on south with Venetia et Histria.

The Romans conquered the Raeti in 15 BC and made Rhaetia a Roman province. According to Dio Cassius, the Roman campaign into Rhaetia was triggered by the Raeti overrunning large areas of Gaul and Italy and harassing Romans and their allies.

(so always in inscriptions; in classical MSS. usually Rhaetia), in ancient geography, a province of the Roman Empire, bounded on the W. by the country of the Helvetii, on the E. by Noricum, on the N. by Vindelicia and on the S. by Cisalpine Gaul.

The incorporation of the region north of the Alpine divide and its foreland into the Imperium Romanum initiated major changes in economic and social structure and in everyday life in the newly-founded province of Raetia.