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Valens

Also known as Flavius Valens, Valens II

Valens (; ; 328 – 9 August 378) was Roman emperor from 364 to 378. Following a largely unremarkable military career, he was named co-emperor by his elder brother Valentinian I, who gave him the eastern half of the Roman Empire to rule. In 378, Valens was defeated and killed at the Battle of Adrianople against the invading Goths, which astonished contemporaries and marked the beginning of barbarian encroachment into Roman territory.

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Valens was a Roman emperor who ruled the eastern half of the empire from 364 until his death in 378, having been appointed to the position by his brother Valentinian I. He is historically significant because his defeat and death at the Battle of Adrianople in 378 against invading Goths shocked the Roman world and signaled the start of barbarian invasions into Roman lands.

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Royalty.birth_date: 328
Royalty.name: Valens
Royalty.image: INC-3015-a Солид. Валент II. Ок. 364 г. (аверс).png
Royalty.alt: Golden coin depicting man with diadem facing right
Royalty.caption: Solidus of Valens, marked:
Royalty.succession: Roman emperor in the East
Royalty.reign: 28 March 364 – 9 August 378
Royalty.predecessor: Valentinian I (alone)
Royalty.successor: Theodosius I
Royalty.regent: Valentinian I (West, 364–75)Gratian (West, 375–78)Valentinian II (West, 375–78)
Royalty.reg type: Co-rulers
Royalty.birth_place: Cibalae, Pannonia Secunda (present-day Vinkovci)
Royalty.death_date: 9 August 378 (aged 49/50)
Royalty.death_place: Adrianople, Eastern Roman Empire (now Edirne)
Royalty.spouse: Domnica
Royalty.issue: AnastasiaCarosaValentinianus Galates
Royalty.regnal name: Imperator Caesar Flavius Valens Augustus
Royalty.dynasty: Valentinianic

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Image: Valens Honorius Musei Capitolini MC494.jpg

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Commons category: Valens
date of death: 0378-08-09
date of birth: 0328-01-01
name in native language: Valens

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Contents

Early life and military career
Reign
Usurpation of Procopius (365–366)
First Gothic War: 367–369
Persian War: 373
Later reign: 373–376
Second Gothic War: 376–378
Battle of Adrianople
Assessment and legacy
Religious policy
Appearance
See also
Notes
Citations
References
External links

As emperor, Valens continually faced threats both internal and external. He defeated, after some dithering, the usurper Procopius in 366, and campaigned against the Goths across the Danube in 367 and 369. In the following years, Valens focused on the eastern frontier, where he faced the perennial threat of Persia, particularly in Armenia, as well as additional conflicts with the Saracens and Isaurians. Domestically, he inaugurated the Aqueduct of Valens in Constantinople, which was longer than all the aqueducts of Rome. In 376–77, the Gothic War broke out, following a mismanaged attempt to settle the Goths in the Balkans. Valens returned from the east to fight the Goths in person, but lack of coordination with his nephew, the western emperor Gratian (Valentinian I's son), as well as poor battle tactics, led to Valens and much of the eastern Roman army dying in a battle near Adrianople in 378.