Encyclopedia > Battle of Adrianople (disambiguation)
There were at least nine Battles of Adrianople at Adrianople or Adrianopolis (now Edirne, Turkey): Selimiye Mosque, built by Sinan in 1575 Edirne is a city in Thrace, the westernmost part of Turkey, close to the borders with Greece and Bulgaria. ...
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
The second Battle of Adrianople (August 9, 378) was fought between a Roman army led by the Emperor Valens and Germanic tribes (mainly Visigoths and Ostrogoths, assisted by some non-Germanic Alans) commanded by Fritigern.
It was part of the Gothic War (377–382) and is one of the most important battles in Roman history because it set the stage for the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century.
The inability of the Empire to make good on the losses suffered at Adrianople (comparable in scale and enormity to the catastrophic defeat suffered in the Battle of Cannae, in which 70,000 to 80,000 Romans were killed or captured) suggests that the Roman losses at Adrianople exceeded 15,000.
Feeds |
Contact