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The battle of Rhode was one of the battles of the 197 BC revolt of the Iberian peoples against Roman domination in the 2nd century BC.

Background
The victory of the Republic of Rome over Carthage in the Second Punic War left Hispania in Roman hands. The transformation of the territory into a province caused important administrative and fiscal changes, and the imposition of the stipendium was not accepted by the local tribes that still enjoyed a certain political structure and capacity of reaction, so that in 197 B.C., just after the Second Macedonian War, a great revolt broke out in the entire conquered area of Hispania because of the Republican plundering. Numerous local chiefs rebelled in Hispania Ulterior and the republic sent Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus to Hispania Citerior and Marcus Helvius Blasion to Hispania Ulterior. Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus died of battle wounds in Hispania Citerior before the end of 197 BC, but Quintus Minucius Thermus defeated the insurgents at the battle of Turda in 196 BC. Quintus Fabius Buteon and Marcus Helvius Blasion defeated the Celtiberians at the battle of Iliturgi. The Roman Senate declared Hispania Citerior a consular province  and the consul Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder went from the port of Luna, bordering the Gulf of Leon with Publius Manlius as assistant, leaving the Ulterior to Appius Claudius Nero with smaller troops.

The battle
Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder, who had two legions, eight thousand infantry, fifteen thousand allies and 800 horsemen for the consular army and two thousand infantry and two hundred horsemen for each of the praetors, landed at Rhode, putting down the resistance of the Hispanic garrison located on the Puig Rom or acropolis of Rhode.

Consequences
The Roman army landed in Emporion, and Cato the Elder had the ships return to Massalia with the merchants to force his army to fight. Cato starts in Emporion, an almost island surrounded by marshes, a hard training of the troops. The rebel army besieging Emporion, of about 40,000 men, was also defeated by Cato in the battle of Emporion. Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder succeeded in a few days in pacifying the entire coastal strip and subduing the Lacetani, Suessetani and Ausetani, and defeating the Lacetani and Bergistani, who were still resisting in their city of Bergium. The Romans ordered the Iberians to sink the walls on pain of being reduced to slavery, and so did the oppida around the Ebro.

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 * Iberian revolt
 * Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula
 * Roman Republic
 * Cato the Elder