Battle of Thyatira

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The Battle of Thyatira was fought in 366

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The Battle of Thyatira was fought in 366

366

Events...
at Thyatira

Thyatira

Thyateira is the ancient name of the modern Turkey city of Akhisar . The Turkish language equivalent ot Thyateira is Tepe Mezarligi. It lies in the far west of Turkey, south of Istanbul and almost due east of Athens....
, Phrygia

Phrygia

In antiquity, Phrygia was a kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey. The Phrygians initially lived in the Southern Balkans; according to Herodotus, under the name of Bryges, changing it to Phruges after their final migration to Anatolia, via the Hellespont....
(modern Turkey), between the army of the Roman Emperor

Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
Valens

Valens

Flamin Julius Valens was Roman Emperor , after he was given the Eastern part of the empire by his brother Valentinian I. Valens, sometimes known as the Last of the Romans, was defeated and killed in the Battle of Adrianople, which marked the beginning of the fall of the Western Roman Empire....
and the army of the usurper

Roman usurper

Usurpers are individuals or groups of individuals who obtain and maintain the power or rights of another by force and without legal authority. Usurpers were a common feature of the late Roman Empire, especially from the crisis of the third century onwards, when political instability became the rule....
Procopius

Procopius (usurper)

Procopius , was a Roman usurper against Valentinian I, and member of the Constantinian dynasty.According to Ammianus Marcellinus, Procopius was a native of Cilicia....
, led by his general Gomoarius.

The defeat of Gomoarius decreased the hopes of Procopius, so that, when Valens reached Procopius and his troops at Nacoleia

Nacoleia

Nacoleia is a Catholic titular see. The original diocese was a metropolitan see, at what is present-day Seyitgazi, Eskisehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey....
, the troops of the usurper deserted their commander, and Procopius was imprisoned and killed by Valens.