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Battle of Adrianople The Battle of Adrianople also known as Battle of Hadrianopolis was fought between the Eastern Roman army led by the Roman emperor Valens and Gothic rebels (largely Thervings as well as Greutungs, non-Gothic Alans, and various local rebels) ...

(378 CE), in which Gothic rebels defeated the Eastern Roman Empire, was the main battle of the Gothic War (376–382). Battle of Adrianople may also refer to: *

Battle of Adrianople (324) The Battle of Adrianople was fought in Thrace on July 3, 324, during a Roman civil war, the second to be waged between the two emperors Constantine I and Licinius. Licinius was soundly defeated and his army suffered heavy casualties. Constanti ...

, a battle in which Constantine the Great defeated Licinius in a Roman civil war * Siege of Adrianople (378), an unsuccessful siege by the Goths following the Battle of Adrianople * Battle of Adrianople (718), a battle between an alliance of Bulgarians and Byzantines against the Umayyad Caliphate, during the

Siege of Constantinople (717–718) In 717–718, Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was besieged by the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate. The campaign marked the culmination of twenty years of attacks and progressive Arab occupation of the Byzantine borde ...

* Battle of Adrianople (813), a successful Bulgarian siege of the Byzantine city * Battle of Adrianople (914), a battle between Bulgarians and Byzantines * Battle of Adrianople (972), a battle between Byzantines and

Kievan Rus' Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,. * was the first East Slavs, East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical At ...

led by

Sviatoslav I of Kiev Sviatoslav or Svyatoslav I Igorevich (; Old Norse: ''Sveinald''; – 972) was Prince of Kiev from 945 until his death in 972. He is known for his persistent campaigns in the east and south, which precipitated the collapse of two great powers ...

* Battle of Adrianople (1003), a battle between Bulgarians and Byzantines * Battle of Adrianople (1094), part of the revolt of

Constantine Diogenes (pretender) Pseudo-Constantine Diogenes or Pseudo-Leo Diogenes (died after 1095) was an unsuccessful pretender to the Byzantine throne against Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Of lowly origin, he pretended to be a son of Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes. Exiled to Cher ...

and his Cuman allies *

Battle of Adrianople (1205) The Battle of Adrianople occurred around Adrianople on April 14, 1205, between Bulgarians and Cumans under Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, and Crusaders under Baldwin I, who only months before had been crowned Emperor of Constantinople, allied w ...

, part of the Fourth Crusade, in which the Bulgarians defeated the Crusaders * Battle of Adrianople (1226), part of the revolt of Theodore Komnenos Doukas * Battle of Adrianople (1254), in which the Byzantines defeated the Bulgarians * Battle of Adrianople (1305), a battle between the Byzantines and the

Catalan Company The Catalan Company or the Great Catalan Company (; , , , or ) was a company of mercenaries led by Roger de Flor in the early 14th century and hired by Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos to combat the increasing power of the Anatolian b ...

* Battle of Adrianople (1355), a battle between the Byzantines and the Serbs led by

Stefan Dušan Stephen (honorific), Stefan Uroš IV Dušan ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Урош IV Душан), also known as Dušan the Mighty ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Силни; – 20 December 1355), was the King of Serbia from 8 September 1331 and Emperor of th ...

* Battle of Adrianople (1365), in which the Ottoman Empire took the city from the Byzantine Empire * Battle of Adrianople (1829), in which the Russians seized the city from the Ottoman Empire * Siege of Adrianople (1912–1913), in which the Serbs and Bulgarians took the city from the Ottomans in the First Balkan War * Siege of Adrianople (1913)

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