The brothers Liuwa and Liuvigild, led by the latter, have banished the imperial civil servants and worked to unify the Iberian Peninsula.
Their efforts are more or less successful, except in the north, where the Basques, Cantabrians, and Asturians manage to hold out against them.
They maintain trade connections with the Eastern Roman Empire, thus maintaining Hispania’s urban culture as well as its commercial and cultural connections within the Mediterranean area.
By this time the language of the Visigoths is no longer Germanic, the Latin of Hispania having evolved into into what will become Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish.
