 The site of Eric's battle, "Tarheste" or "Tarsatica" in Latin, has been traditionally identified with Trsat, a hill fort whose ruins today overlook the city of Rijeka.However, it is more likely that the "Tharsatica" of Einhard's account was the "civitas" (Latin for "city") Tergeste on the Adriatic coast beneath the Dinaric Alps, which today would be Trieste inhabited by Croats and Slovenes at the time.A year after Eric's death in 799, the Franks attacked Tharsatica again and the site of modern Trsat was actually founded by Tharsatica's surviving inhabitants a year after the siege.