The Raeti (/ ˈriːtaɪ / REE-ty; spelling variants: Rhaeti, Rheti or Rhaetii) were a confederation of Alpine tribes, whose language and culture were related to those of the Etruscans. Before the Roman conquest, they inhabited present-day Tyrol in Austria, eastern Switzerland and the Alpine regions of northeastern Italy.

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.

Anglicized Name: Raetians, Rhaeti, Raeti. The Raeti possessed the lands of what today is Switzerland’s Grisons, Austria’s Tyrol, and parts of Germany’s Bavaria. Rhaetia was north of the Po, confined between the Danube, the Rhine, and the Lech rivers. The Raeti also were found in the mountains along the Adige River in northeast Italy.

…language spoken by the ancient Raetians in southern Germany and in the Alpine regions of Italy, Austria, and Switzerland in pre-Roman times. The language is known from a number of inscriptions. …the Alpine foothills, and the Raeti, in the valleys of the Trentino and the Alto Adige.

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.

Little is known of the origin or history of the Raetians, who are described as one of the most powerful and warlike of the Alpine tribes. It is distinctly stated by Livy (v. 33) that they were of Etruscan origin (a view favoured by Niebuhr and Mommsen). A tradition reported by Justin (xx.

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.

这一区域的西部居民后来成了高卢民族，东部居民则分化成了雷蒂亚人 (Raetians)，帕诺尼亚人 (Pannonians) 和一些更细小的族群。 在拉坦诺文化的初期（前450年左右），这些凯尔特人的主要活动集中在马恩区 (Marne, 上图中最左侧的黑色区块）和波西米亚区 (Bohemia, 最右侧区块）,保证了在和沿海城市进行贸易的同时不会和他们产生领地冲突。 但是，随着各个部落的人口逐渐增长，再加上部落间的好战冲突，许多族群被迫离开上述的凯尔特中心区前往 法国中部，意大利 …

The Raeti (/ ˈriːtaɪ / REE-ty; spelling variants: Rhaeti, Rheti or Rhaetii) were a confederation of Alpine tribes, whose language and culture were related to those of the Etruscans. Before the Roman conquest, they inhabited present-day Tyrol in Austria, eastern Switzerland and the Alpine regions of northeastern Italy.

In 1968, Ernst Risch, who had been invited as the token linguist to speak at an archaeological symposium on the Raetians in Chur (see below), gave an overview of the current state of research. He addressed methodological problems such as the doubtful homogeneity of ethnicity and language in Alpine regions and apparent linguistic and epigraphic ...