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MacLeod, who'd been born over a thousand years too late to remember Adrianople, asked what the battle had been about.
In the subsequent Battle of Adrianople in 378, Valens was killed and his armies were destroyed by the Goths.
Do you remember when we talked about the Visigoths, the battle of Adrianople?
On 6 August, reconnaissance informed Valens that about 10,000 Goths were marching towards Adrianople from the north, about 25 kilometers away.
Despite the difficult ground, Valens reached Adrianople where the Roman army fortified its camp with ditch and rampart.
It is not possible to precisely list the units of the Roman army at Adrianople.
Some units at Adrianople may have been merged or disbanded due to their losses.
The Gothic armies were mostly infantry, with some cavalry, which was significant in the battle of Adrianople.
On the morning of 9 August, Valens decamped from Adrianople, where he left the imperial treasury and administration under guard.
The defeat at Adrianople signified that the barbarians, fighting for or against the Romans, had become powerful adversaries.
The Medieval knight was not to rise for several centuries after Adrianople.
Frederick responded by capturing the Byzantine city of Adrianople, returning it only when Isaac agreed to transport the Germans across the Hellespont into Turkey.
The commentary on the Pentateuch by Alsheikh, who was born in Adrianople and studied under Joseph Caro in Salonika, was based on his Sabbath sermons in Safed.
Nearby is the Turkish city of Edirne, the former Adrianople.
In the Danube provinces, the evidence fits neatly with political history following the Battle of Adrianople in 378, after which their condition was continually disturbed by the Visigothic immigrants.
As the Bulgarian attack was being repulsed, Romanian troops began an uncontested march toward Sofia from the north, and Turkey reoccupied the fortress of Adrianople.
When a revolt in Constantinople halted his dynastic project, he again invaded Thrace and conquered Adrianople.
Sebastianus picked 2,000 of his legionaries and marched towards Adrianople.
He brought his army from Melantias to Adrianople, where he met with Sebastian's force.
Intense campaigns against the Visigoths followed their victory at Adrianople for upwards of three years.
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Then they turned and fled through the streets of Adrianople with a dozen Turks hotfoot after them.
We do not leave its valley until we are beyond the Turkish frontier and Adrianople.
The band of boys to which Michael was attached was marched at once to Adrianople.
His master, an Armenian, snipped off part of his tongue at Adrianople.
This signal victory of the Goths was followed by a siege of Adrianople.
The railway from Sofia to Constantinople passed through Adrianople.
In relation to the intellectual capacities of women, Montagu gave the example of fair Fatima with whom she was acquainted in Adrianople.
In AD 378, a surprise attack by Gothic cavalry overwhelmed the Roman forces at Adrianople.
They soon made themselves masters of Philippopolis and Adrianople.
Adrianople road brought it all back to him, the mystery and the pain.
You see his offense was that he used the gold from the altar to rescue people taken prisoner after the battle of Adrianople where the barbarian tribes defeated the Roman army.
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