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Topic: Roman Gothic War, Fifth, or Gothic War (376–382)
Location: Zile Tokat Turkey

Roman Gothic War, Fifth, or Gothic War (376–382)

Years: 376 - 382

The Gothic War (376–382) is the name given to a series of Gothic battles and plunderings of the eastern Roman Empire in the Balkans between about 376/377 and 382.

Thewar, and in particular the Battle of Adrianople is a major turning point in the history of the Roman Empire, the first barbarian invasion in a series of events over the next century that would see the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.

“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)