Start In the course of 473 Euric ordered his armies in Hispania to subdue the remaining Roman garrisons and local troops there. The province of Tarraconensis was the last major area in Hispania where Roman authority still functioned. The sources do not mention specific battles, but the war must have been heavy and long. The Roman resistance was personally led by the
comes Hispaniarum Vincentius. He offered strong defense from the cities of
Tarraco and
Caesaraugusta and was able to stop the Gothic advance for a while. Eventually he had to surrender and Eurik subjugated the entire province in 474 or early 475. Jordanes mentions a hundred years later, summarizing: :«"''Euric 'conquered all of Spain, even those regions that opposed his rule for a long time"''.« Only
Gallaecia (northwest, present-day Galicia) remained outside his power, where the
Suebi ruled, a Germanic people who had its own kingdom.
Expire Isidor of Seville (560-637) tells us that Eurik had the Roman commander Vincentius murdered, with which he wanted to force the Roman aristocracy into tractability. In the course of 475, the Western Roman emperor Julius Nepos tried to stabilize the situation diplomatically. A treaty was presumably concluded in which Eurics' authority over all of Hispania and Gaul, from the Pyrenees to the Loire and the Rhône, was recognized in exchange for peace. This recognition actually meant the end of Roman power in Spain. In return,
Provence returned to the control of Rome. Modern historians (such as
Roger Collins and
Peter Heather) interpret this as a realistic peace deal, in which Nepos acknowledged that he could no longer change anything militarily. ==Aftermath==