The Battle of Adrianople

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The Wanderings of the Tribes
Known as the "Migration Age", the period from the Third to Seventh Centuries saw great movements of many Germanic peoples. This group is for the discussion of these tribes, clans and warbands, their great treks and their part in the fall of the Roman Empire.

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From their ancestors' migration over the Danube under Fritigern to the fall of the Visigothic Kingdom of Spain. ...

The Battle of Adrianople

Historical Thread ₀ Featured November 29 , 2003

Discussion of the great victory of Fritigern's Tervingi and their allies over the army of the Emperor Valens.

On August 9, 378 AD, the Eastern Roman Emperor Valens marched out of the city of Adrianople with an army of about 25,000 troops determined to destroy the forces of the Gothic rebel Fritigern.

By the evening of the same day he lay dead on the field of battle along with up to one third of his army - a defeat the historian Ammianus Marcellinus declared the worst since Cannae.

How did Gothic refugees from over the Danube, who up to that point had been on the defensive against the Romans, inflict such a crushing defeat on the Empire? And was this surprise Gothic victory the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire?

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* Thiudareiks Gunthigg, Nov 28, 2003 - 23:30

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Reading on Adrianople (* Thiudareiks Gunthigg, Nov 29, 2003 - 00:13 )

The Battle of Adrianople Part 5: The Aftermath (* Thiudareiks Gunthigg, Nov 28, 2003 - 23:57 )

The Battle of Adrianople Part 4: The Battle is Joined (* Thiudareiks Gunthigg, Nov 28, 2003 - 23:52 )

The Battle of Adrianople Part 3: The War in Thrace (* Thiudareiks Gunthigg, Nov 28, 2003 - 23:48 )

The Battle of Adrianople Part 2: The Gothic Revolt (* Thiudareiks Gunthigg, Nov 28, 2003 - 23:42 )

The Battle of Adrianople Part 1: Movements on the Steppes (* Thiudareiks Gunthigg, Nov 28, 2003 - 23:36 )

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