This article is about the battle of 378 AD. For the subsequent siege, see Siege of Adrianople (378). For other uses, see Battle of Adrianople (disambiguation).
Battle of Adrianople
Part of the Gothic War (376–382)
Map of the battle, according to the History Department of the US Military Academy
Emperor Valens † Sebastianus † Victor Traianus † Ricomer
Strength
20,000[1]
30,000[2]
Casualties and losses
Unknown
10,000–15,000[3]or 20,000[4] (roughly two-thirds of the Roman force)[5]
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Gothic War (376–382)
Marcianople
Willows
Dibaltum
1st Adrianople
2nd Adrianople
Constantinople
Thessalonica
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Gothic War (376–382)
Marcianople
Willows
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Constantinople
Thessalonica
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Frigidus
Revolt of Alaric I
Gildonic War
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Asti
Pollentia
Verona
War of Radagaisus
Florence
Faesulae
Crossing of the Rhine
Ostia
Rome (410)
War of Heraclianus
Massilia
Gothic War in Spain (416–418)
Nervasos Mountains
Roman–Sasanian War of 421–422
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Roman civil war of 425
Gothic revolt of Theodoric I
Arles (425)
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Mérida
Frankish War (428)
Africa
Hippo Regius
Carthage
Roman civil war of 432
Rimini
Burgundian Revolt of Gunther
Arles (435)
Gothic War (436–439)
Narbonne
Battle of Mons Colubrarius
Toulouse (439)
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Byzantine–Sasanian War of 440
Vicus Helena
Utus
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Aquileia
Padua
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Rome (455)
Aylesford
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Roman civil war of 456
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The Battle of Adrianople (9 August 378), sometimes known as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between an Eastern Roman army led by the Eastern Roman Emperor Valens and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alans, and various local rebels) led by Fritigern. The battle took place in the vicinity of Adrianople, in the Roman province of Thracia (modern Edirne in European Turkey). It ended with an overwhelming victory for the Goths and the death of Emperor Valens.[6]
As part of the Gothic War of 376–382, the battle is often considered the start of the events which led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century.
A detailed contemporary account of the lead-up to the battle from the Roman perspective was written by Ammianus Marcellinus and forms the culminating point at the end of his history.[7]
^Williams and Friell, p. 179
^Williams, S. Friell, G., Theodosius: The Empire at Bay. p. 177
^Heather, Peter, 1999, The Goths, p. 135
^Williams and Friell, p. 18
^Williams and Friell, p. 19
^Zosimus, Historia Nova, book 4.
^Ammianus Marcellinus, Historiae, book 31, chapters 12–14.
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