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The Gothic War of 376–382 was one of several Gothic Wars in Roman history in which the Goths fought against the Roman Empire.This particular conflict included the catastrophic Roman defeat at the Battle of Adrianople, which is commonly seen as a cause of the decline of the Western Roman Empire, although its significance is widely debated.
It was the first notable battle of the Gothic War of 376–382. [ 4 ] After a failed Roman attempt to assassinate the Gothic leadership at a banquet in Marcianople , the Roman commander Lupicinius gathered all available troops, some 5,000 men, and attacked the 7,000–8,000 Thervingi Goths under Fritigern nine miles to the west of the town.
Greuthungi and Thervingi fought against Valens' Eastern Roman Empire between 376 and 382. [citation needed] Between about 376 and 382 the Gothic War against the Eastern Roman Empire, and in particular the Battle of Adrianople, in which the emperor Valens was killed, is commonly seen as important in the history of the Roman Empire, the first of a series of events over the next century that ...
The Goths surprised the Romans as they made camp for the night, [1] and Barzimeres quickly arranged the army into battle formation. [4] The Romans attacked the Goths in an effort to force them to withdraw, [4] and the battle appeared as if it would last until nightfall. [3]
Fritigern (fl. 370s) was a Thervingian Gothic chieftain whose decisive victory at Adrianople during the Gothic War (376–382) led to favourable terms for the Goths when peace was made with Gratian and Theodosius I in 382.
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 ...
The main contemporary sources in which this war is reported are the historian Orosius and the poet Claudianus. Other early sources are Zosimus, a historian who probably lived about half a century after Alaric's death, and Jordanes, a Romanized Goth who wrote a history of his people around 550. These sources provide a lot of information, but are ...
Gothic War (248–253), battles and plundering carried out by the Goths and their allies in the Roman Empire. Gothic War (367–369), a war of Thervingi against the Eastern Roman Empire in which the Goths retreated to Montes Serrorum; Gothic War (376–382), Thervingi and Greuthungi against the Roman Empire; Gothic War (395-398), a war of ...