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Alea Jacta Est Cantabrian Wars covers Rome’s campaign against the Asturian and Cantabrian peoples of northern Hispania, who resisted Roman rule and held on to their independence and lands. You follow the conflict from its beginnings in 29 BC to its end in 19 BC, as Roman forces seek to bring the region under the Pax Romana.

The campaign

After his victory at Actium in 30 BC, Octavian became Rome’s dominant ruler. Following three triumphs, he used the wealth of defeated Egypt to reorganize the empire, returning the management of all but three provinces to the Senate. He reserved Gaul, Hispania and Syria for himself, and strengthened the borders of his provinces.

Octavian also sought to end resistance to Roman rule. In 29 BC, he ordered Titus Taurus Statilius to subdue the Vaccaei tribe in Hispania. When the Vaccaei called on their Asturian and Cantabrian mountain neighbors for help, Rome used this as a pretext to campaign against those peoples.

A prolonged war

The imperial administration did not expect the war to last until 19 BC. Rome sent many legions, and Octavian, who became Emperor Augustus in 26 BC, intervened personally. In 19 BC, the Asturian and Cantabrian peoples accepted the Pax Romana after massacres and executions ordered by Agrippa, who defeated the peninsula’s last independent tribes.