VINDELICIA  , in See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography, a See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country bounded on the S. by See also:

• RAETIA (so always in inscriptions; in classical MSS. usually RHAETIA)

Raetia, on the N. by the See also:

• DANUBE (Ger. Donau, Hungarian Duna, Rumanian Dunarea, Lat. Danubius or Danuvius, and in the lower part of its course Ister)

Danube and the Valium Hadriani, on the E. by the Oenus (See also:

• INN

Inn), on the W. by the territory of the See also:

• HELVETII ('El ouipeot, 'EXI3ilrriol)

Helvetii . It thus corresponded to the N.E. portion of See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Switzerland, the S.E. of See also:

• BADEN
• BADEN, GRAND DUCHY OF

Baden, and the S. of Wiirttemberg and See also:

• BAVARIA (Ger. Bayern)

Bavaria . Together with the neighbouring tribes it was subjugated by Tiberius in 15 B.C., and towards the end of the 1st See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century A.D. was made See also:

• PART

part of Raetia (q.v.) . Its See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• TOWN

town was See also:

• AUGUSTA

Augusta Vindelicorum (See also:

• AUGSBURG
• AUGSBURG, CONFESSION OF
• AUGSBURG, WAR OF THE LEAGUE OF

Augsburg) . Its in-habitants were probably of See also:

• CELTIC

Celtic origin (cf. the recurrence of Vind- in other Celtic names—Vindobona, Vindonissa); some authorities, however, regard them as See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German . According to Dio See also:

• CASSIUS
• CASSIUS, AVIDIUS (d. A.D. 175)
• CASSIUS, GAIUS

Cassius (liv . 22) they were an agricultural See also:

• PEOPLE

people, and later writers (e.g . Isidorus, Origines, i . 4), describe the country as very fertile .