Valens prepares for war against the Persians…
August 377 CE
Valens prepares for war against the Persians in 377, taking measures to recruit ‘Scythians’ (Goths) for the war, and again moves forward to Hierapolis, where he spends July and August.
He intends to attack in early spring 378 as it is too late in the year to launch a major offensive, but the Armenian ruler Varazdat, a Roman client, is expelled from his kingdom by Manuel Mamikonian.
As Persian king Shapur II proceeds to attack the territories taken over by the Romans and to harry the troops supporting Sauromaces, the Roman client-king of Iberia, Valens receives the news of the Goths’ invasion of Thrace.
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People
Groups
Polytheism (“paganism”)
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Persian people
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Armenian people
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Iberia, Caucasian (Kartli, Kingdom of)
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Goths (East Germanic tribe)
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Armenia, Kingdom of
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Persian Empire, Sassanid, or Sasanid
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Thervingi (East Germanic tribe)
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Greuthungi (East Germanic tribe)
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Christianity, Arian
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Asia, Diocese of
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Thrace, Diocese of
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East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
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Roman Empire: Valentinian dynasty (Rome)
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Hunnic Empire
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