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VINDELICIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 92 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VINDELICIA  , in

ancient geography, a country bounded on the S. by Raetia, on the N. by the Danube and the Valium Hadriani, on the E. by the Oenus (
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Inn), on the W. by the territory of the Helvetii . It thus corresponded to the N.E. portion of
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Switzerland, the S.E. of Baden, and the S. of Wiirttemberg and Bavaria . Together with the neighbouring tribes it was subjugated by Tiberius in 15 B.C., and towards the end of the 1st century A.D. was made
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part of Raetia (q.v.) . Its chief
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town was
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Augusta Vindelicorum (Augsburg) . Its in-habitants were probably of
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Celtic origin (cf. the recurrence of Vind- in other Celtic names—Vindobona, Vindonissa); some authorities, however, regard them as German . According to Dio Cassius (liv . 22) they were an agricultural
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people, and later writers (e.g . Isidorus, Origines, i . 4), describe the country as very fertile .

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