Tag: Emperor Valens

From the mid 370’s a frightening new nomadic force arrive out of Asia and into eastern Europe. These warrior people […]

In modern Istanbul, standing impressively over the traffic on the busy Atatürk Bulvarı is the Aqueduct of Valens. (Today it […]

Valens was beset by serious problems from the moment he was first appointed by his older brother Valentinian, to rule […]

This is the reverse of a solidus minted by Valens, which depicts Valens and his older brother Valentinian, seated on […]

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