TheVisigothic chieftainAthanaric becomes the first foreign king to visit the Eastern Roman capital ofConstantinople. He negotiates apeace treaty with emperorTheodosius I that makes his peoplefoederati as "one body within the imperial soldiery".[1] Athanaric dies 2 weeks later[2] after an 18-year reign in which he has been undisputed king of all theGoths for just 1 year. The peace will continue until Theodosius's death in395.
TheSciri together with theHuns attack along Rome's lower Danubian frontier.[3]
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^Donini, Guido; Ford, Gordon B. (1970).Isidore of Seville's History of the Goths, Vandals. Leiden: Brill. pp. 7–8.
^Heather, Peter (2010).Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 222.ISBN978-0-19-973560-0.
^Socrates Scholasticus.The Ecclesiastical History: Book 5, Chapter 8.