Roman Emperor Valens
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Roman Emperor Valens
Defender of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire
AD 364 - 378
Valens, and his brother Valentinian I, are remembered as the last Emperors to make valiant efforts to stem the tide of the vast hordes of incoming Barbarians. Valens owed his elevation in the 36th year of age to his brother, Valentinian, who chose him to be his associate in the empire. In the year 366 Valens at one stroke reduced the taxes of the empire by one-forth, a very popular measure, though one of questionable policy in the face of the threatening attitude of the Goths on the lower Danube. After some success over the Goths, won by his generals )367-369), Valens concluded a peace with them, which lasted six years.
In the years 371 to 377 Valens was in Asia Minor, most of the time as the Syrian Antioch. Though anxious to avoid an Eastern was because of danger nearer home from the Goths, we was compelled to take the field against Shapur II. Valens crossed the Euphrates in 373, and drove back the King of Persia to the farther bank of the Tigris. The Huns, of whom we now hear for the first time, were beginning in 376 to press the Goths from the north. Accordingly, the Goths, under their chief Fritigern, streamed across the Balkans into Thrace and the country around Adrianople, plundering, burning and slaughtering as they went.
Valens left Constantinople in May 378 with a strong and well-officered army. Without waiting, Valens attacked the enemy at once. The battle, which was fought on confined ground in a valley, was decided by a cavalry charge which threw the Roman infantry into confusion and hemmed it in so closely that the men could scarcely draw their swords. The slaughter, which completely destroyed the Roman army, was one of the greatest recorded in antiquity. Valens perished either on the field or, some said, in a cottage fired by the enemy.
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