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The Visigoths first appeared in history as a distinct people in the year A.D. 268 when they invaded the Roman Empire and swarmed over the Balkan peninsula. This invasion overran the Roman provinces of Pannonia and Illyricum. The Visigoths were defeated however at the Battle of Naissus and over the next three years pushed back across the Danube River by the emperors Claudius II, Gothicus and Aurelian. They maintained a stronghold in Dacia which Emperor Aurelian abandoned in A.D. 271. Bold text

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  • The Visigoths first appeared in history as a distinct people in the year A.D. 268 when they invaded the Roman Empire and swarmed over the Balkan peninsula. This invasion overran the Roman provinces of Pannonia and Illyricum. The Visigoths were defeated however at the Battle of Naissus and over the next three years pushed back across the Danube River by the emperors Claudius II, Gothicus and Aurelian. They maintained a stronghold in Dacia which Emperor Aurelian abandoned in A.D. 271. Bold text
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  • The Visigoths first appeared in history as a distinct people in the year A.D. 268 when they invaded the Roman Empire and swarmed over the Balkan peninsula. This invasion overran the Roman provinces of Pannonia and Illyricum. The Visigoths were defeated however at the Battle of Naissus and over the next three years pushed back across the Danube River by the emperors Claudius II, Gothicus and Aurelian. They maintained a stronghold in Dacia which Emperor Aurelian abandoned in A.D. 271. Bold text There the Visigoths adopted Arianism as their religion. They remained in Dacia until A.D. 376 when Emperor Valens permitted the Visigoths refuge from the Huns. However the Visigoths were treated harshly and when a famine broke out and the Visigoths were routed into what could be compared to a concentration camp. After pleading for food Emperor Valens permitted the Visigoths food in the city of Marcianople. Their death march across the Balkans saw the deaths of many of their old and sickly. Finally reaching the city they were refused entry and they rioted. At the Battle of Adrianople the Roman forces were slaughtered including Emperor Valens. Emperor Theodosius I made peace with the Visigoths in A.D. 379, but the peace was broken when Theodosius died in A.D. 395. In the same year King Alaric I took the Visigoth throne. After Theodosius' son Honorius murdered the Visigoth general Stilicho, the Roman armies murdered 30,000 barbarian soldiers and in response Alaric declared war. Even as the Visigoth army was at the gates of Rome Honorius refused to come to terms. And so in the year A.D. 410 Alaric sacked the city of Rome.
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