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Bolia, Battle of

Years: 469 - 469

The Battle of Bolia is a battle in 469 between the Ostrogoths and a coalition of Germanic tribes near the river Ipeľ in present day Slovakia and Hungary.

The Roman Emperor Leo I supports the anti-Goth coalition, despite the advice of his General Aspar.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)