Rhètes
The Rhètes are people (probably Celte or Italique, but without any certainty) which lived in an area called Rhétie which included/understood the Grisons current (in Suisse), the the Austrian Tyrol and part of the Lombardy (Italy).
Rhètes settled in Eastern Switzerland towards 500 av. J. - C.
In the year 15 before our era, Rhètes were subjected by the Romains (Tibère and Drusus), at the same time as the majority of the Celtic people of the Alps. Rhètes were Latinized in what had become the Province of Rhétie (the Raetia ).
Latin spoken by these populations evolved/moved during the centuries to lead to the languages known as “Rhaeto-Romanic” which are the dialects Romanche S in the Swiss canton of the Grisons, the Ladin of the Italian Dolomites and the Frioulan spoken in the Italian province about the Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
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