Vindelicia

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In ancient geography, Vindelicia is a country bounded on the south by Raetia, on the north by the Danube and the Vallum Hadriani, on the east by the Oenus (Inn), on the west by the territory of the Helvetii. It thus corresponded to the northeast portion of Switzerland, the southeast of Baden, and the south of Württemberg and Bavaria. Its chief town was Augusta Vindelicorum (Augsburg).

Its inhabitants, the Vindelici were probably Celtic (Gaulish), and a possible etymology of their name includes an element vind- cognate to Irish find- "white" (compare Ginevra). Together with the neighbouring tribes they were subjugated by Tiberius in 15 BC. The Augustean inscription of 12 BC mentions four tribes of the Vindelici among the defeated.

Towards the end of the 1st century AD, Vindelicia was included in the province of Raetia.

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