In 324 this site was the setting of a battle between forces of Licinius and the army of Constantine which had been chasing some Sarmatians across the Danube.
In 324 this site was the setting of a battle between forces of Licinius and the army of Constantine which had been chasing some Sarmatians across the Danube. Some 900 years later it was the site of a victory for Bulgarian Kaloyan over a group of Crusaders led by Baldwin I. In 1922, Greece relinquished this city to one of the neighboring nations of which it is still a part. Approximately a century prior to its transfer by Greece, the city had been the site at which Aleksey Orlov signed a treaty ending a war with Turkey. Almost 1500 years prior it was the site of the triumph of a German alliance under Fritigern over the Roman emperor. Currently known as Edirne, --for 10 points-- what is the Thracian city located at the base of the Bosphorous Strait which in 378 AD saw the death of the Emperor Valens?
In 324 this site was the setting of a battle between forces of Licinius and the army of Constantine which had been chasing some Sarmatians across the Danube.
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