Valens

''This article is about the Roman Emperor. For other people called Valens, see Valens '' Flavius Julius Valens (Latin: FLAVIUS IVLIVS VALENS AVGVSTVS; 328 - 9 August 378) was Roman Emperor (364-378), after he was given the Eastern part of...

In this article: Jovian, Procopius, Valentinian II, Athanaric, Gratian, and Valentinian I

...as Varasdates) was an Armenian prince who succeeded his uncle King Pap as King of Armenia in 374. Following the assassination of King Pap, Valens sent Varazdat, a nephew of Pap, a young man highly reputed for his mental and physical gifts,...

In this article: Varazdat, Manuel Mamikonian, Armenia, King Pap, Rome, and Battle of Adrianople

...grew into warfare, Athanaric gained the advantage, and Fritigern asked for Roman aid. The Emperor Valens and the Thracian field army intervened, Valens and Fritigern defeated Athanaric, and Fritigern converted to Christianity, following the...

In this article: Athanaric, Socrates Scholasticus, Danube, Christianity, Gothic War, Zosimus, and Sozomen

...praying for the mission's success. At the start of the second Act the festival is in full swing. Valens sends Septimius to tell Theodora that if she doesn't join in with the festival by the end of the day, he will send soldiers to...

In this article: Theodora, George Frideric Handel, Theodora and Didymus, Christianity, William Christie, and Robert Boyle

...the city was rebuilt and increased in size, the system needed to be greatly expanded to meet the needs of the rapidly growing population. The Valens aqueduct, which originally got its water from the slopes of the hills between Kagithane and...

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...(Also referred to as Dominica, Albia Domnica, Domnica, or Domnica Augusta; c. 337 - after 378) was a Roman Augusta , wife to Emperor Valens. Valens, who ruled from 364-378, was emperor of the East and co-emperor with his brother Valentinian...

In this article: Albia Dominica, Basil of Caesarea, God, Hadad, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Trinity

Valens Thessalonicus (d. ca. 261) was a Roman usurper against Roman Emperor Gallienus. Valens was the proconsul of Achaea under Gallienus. When Macrianus rebelled to Gallienus, he met the opposition of Valens, so he sent Piso to put him...

In this article: Gallienus, Thirty Tyrants, Augustus, and Achaea

...Valens (February 8, 120 - c. 175 CE) was a second-century Hellenistic astrologer , a somewhat younger contemporary of Claudius Ptolemy . Valens is known to us because of his major work, known as the Anthology, a 10 volume work in Greek...

In this article: Claudius Ptolemy, Alexandria, Antioch, and Egypt

...and would have been killed by his own soldiers after few days, as happened to his nephew. It is possible that this Valens was Iulius Valens Licinianus, who usurped the purple in Rome during the absence of the Emperor Decius in the war...

In this article: Decius, Thirty Tyrants, Gallienus, and Rome

...across the Danube - annihilated the field army of the Eastern Roman Empire, butchering thousands of soldiers and the unpopular emperor Valens. But only in a narrow sense are those hours of slaughter the point of the title of Alessandro...

In this article: Rome, Danube, Ideology, Waste, Tax, Battle of Adrianople, and Ammianus Marcellinus