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Hello and welcome to the history of Rome.

Episode 154, The Gothic War.

There is an old legend that a few days after the Battle of Adrienne Opal,

a frittigurn and his triumphant Goths advanced on Constantinople.

Fear and trepidation seized the capital at the sight of this great horde advancing because the people of the city knew there would be no stopping them.

The Emperor was dead and his army destroyed.

It seemed that only God himself could deliver them all from doom.

But of course, as it turned out, it did not take God to deliver Constantinople from doom.

All it took was the Goths getting one look at the city walls.

Frittigurn's horde may have been the largest army for 500 miles in any direction, but that did not mean they had the skills or the tools to lay siege to a fortified city.

There would be no sacking of Constantinople.

Instead, the Goths turned around and headed back into the heart of the Balkans, looking for prizes they actually had the means to win.

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