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The Ladin people are a small European ethnic group residing principally in the Dolomite Alps region of the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Veneto autonomous region of Northern Italy. Their homeland, which they call Ladinia but which has no official status, consists of the high alpine valleys between the Piave and Isarco rivers south of the Italian border with Austria. The capital and major cultural center of the Ladins is Cortina d'Ampezzo which is called Ampëz in Ladin.

The Ladins are a Rhaeto-Romantic nation that traces its ancestry to the ancient Celts. They are the smallest of the three Rhaeto-Romantic peoples of Europe, the others being the Romansh of Switzerland and the Friulis who inhabit a territory just to the south of Ladinia.