Politics of Augustus in a relation with Gallaecia

Résumé

The figure of Augustus is intimately related to the history of Gallaecia, because it was one of the last territories subject to the rule of the Roman Empire. It is true that Gallaecia did not constitute an administrative division in itself at the time of the Emperor, apart from what the controversial Bierzo Edict might suggest, but this approach was adopted in other to give Gallaecia the place it deserves in Roman history. There is not much information on the military activities carried out in Hispania, probably due to the strong interest in the clashes between the successors of Caesar at the time. The silence of the sources does not help to better understand the evolution of the provincial institutions located in Gallecia. Significantly more information is available from 26 A.D. when Augustus personally took the lead of the war in Hispania, now reduced to the territory of the Cantabrians, Astures, and Galicia, which shows the importance attributed by the new sovereign to the definitive conquest of the entire Hispanic territory.