Valens begins preparations for a major expedition …
Years: 375 - 375
June
Valens begins preparations for a major expedition as the eastern frontier heats up in 375.
Meanwhile, trouble is brewing elsewhere.
In Isauria, the mountainous region of western Cilicia, the inhabitants of which are described by Ammianus Marcellinus as the scourge of the neighboring provinces of Asia Minor, a major revolt has broken out which diverts troops formerly stationed in the east.
Locations
People
Groups
- Isaurians
- Cilicia (Roman province)
- Syria Palæstina, Roman province of (Judea, Samaria, and Idumea)
- Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
- Christianity, Arian
- East, Diocese of the
- Asia, Diocese of
- Christianity, Nicene
- Roman Empire: Valentinian dynasty (Rome)
