The Transformation of the Western Empire in the 5th Century

The land the Romans had dangled out in front of the Goths was the Gallic region of Aquitaine, just north of the Pyrenees along the Atlantic coast. The price for this new homeland would be the destruction of the Vandals and Alons who still roamed free in Hispania. In hispania, no such quid pro quo existed. Such a deal had been struck with Maximus and Gorontius, rather than Honorius and Constantius. So Ravenna considered the Elands and Vandals to be illegal squatters.