The Battle of Abritus also known as the Battle of Forum Terebronii, occursin the Roman province of Moesia Inferior (modern Razgrad, Bulgaria) probably in July, 251, between the Roman Empire and a federation of Scythian tribesmen under the Goth king Cniva.
The Romans are soundly defeated, and Roman emperors Decius and his son Herennius Etruscus are both killed during battle.
They become the first Roman emperors killed in a battle with a foreign enemy.The battle typically marks the starting of a period of increased military and political instability in the Roman Empire, although the symptoms of the crisis had already appeared in the preceding decades.
