ABSTRACT
There remained now in Spain only the Sueves, the least numerous of the invaders, weakened moreover by a sanguinary defeat near Merida, sustained at the hands of Gaiserich before his embarkation. Hence it would seem that nothing could have been easier than to re-establish the authority of the Empire in Spain. But it was not so. The Suevian Kings defeated the Roman troops (439) and succeeded in taking Merida and Seville, which made them masters of Lusitania and Baetica. Rome suffered a new defeat in 446. The treaty of 454 now only left to the Empire Tarraconensis and Carthaginiensis.
