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Battle of Adrianople (disambiguation)

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Battle of Adrianople (378 AD) was fought between a Roman army led by the emperor Valens and Germanic tribes (mainly Visigoths and Ostrogoths) commanded by Fritigern. The battle took place at today's Edirne (Turkey) and ended with an overwhelming victory of Germanic tribes. Emperor Valens, who is accused of causing the defeat by failing to wait for reinforcements, and was among 40000 Roman soldiers lost on the battlefield. It was one of the major victories of so-called barbarians over the Roman forces, which aided several Germanic tribes to gain rights of accommodation within the Balkan territories and intrude into the Roman Empire. Ongoing Germanic intrusions resulted in the division of the empire into two halves on 395 AD and extinction of the Western half in 476 AD.


Battle of Adrianople is also name for battle which occured April 14 1205 between Bulgars? under Tzar? Kolojan, and Latins? under caesar Baldouin?, won by Bulgars. Around 300 latin knights were killed, caesar was captured.


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