Europe, 16 Jun 251: Battle of Abritus
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Political map of Europe & the Mediterranean on 16 Jun 251 (The Crisis of the Third Century: Battle of Abritus), showing the following events: Principate of Decius; Decius’ Gothic War; Plague of Cyprian; Licinianus; Titus Julius Priscus; Principate of Trebonianus Gallus; Battle of Abritus; Post-Decian currency crisis.

R o m a n E m p i r e(Gallus & Hostilian)

F i n n o - U g r i c P e o p l e s

Sasanian
Persian Empire(Shapur I)

S a r m a t i a n s

Mauretania
Tingitana(R. imp.)

Africa Proconsularis(R. sen.)

Lusitania(R. imp.)

Bosporan
Kingdom(R. client)

Macedonia(R. sen.)

Quadi(R. client)

Marco-
manni(R. client)

Iazyges(R. client)

Margiana(Per. vas.)

Hasdingi(R. client)

Colchis(R. client)

Numidia(R. imp.)

Cappadocia(R. imp.)

Dalmatia(R. imp.)

Noricum(R. imp.)

Phoenice(R. imp.)

Achaea(R. sen.)

Sicily(R. sen.)

Belgica(R. imp.)

Syria Coele(R. imp.)

Aquitania(R. imp.)

Narbonensis(R. sen.)

Cilicia(R. imp.)

Mauretania
Caesariensis(R. imp.)

Cyprus(R. sen.)

Lower
Britain(R. imp.)

Bithynia
& Pontus(R. imp.)

Baetica(R. sen.)

Lugdunensis(R. imp.)

Galatia(R. imp.)

Corsica
&
Sardinia(R. sen.)

Crete
&
Cyrenaica(R. sen.)

Upper
Britain(R. imp.)

Arabia
Petraea(R. imp.)

Tarraconensis(R. imp.)

Palestine(R. imp.)

Raetia(R. imp.)

Roxolani(R. client)

L.
Pann.(R. imp.)

Upper
Moesia(R. imp.)

Alem.(R. client)

Osrhoene(R. imp.)

Upper
Germania(R. imp.)

Lower
Germania(R. imp.)

Upper
Pannonia(R. imp.)

Epirus(R. imp.)

Thrace(R. imp.)

Lycia &
Pamphylia(R. sen.)

L. Moesia(R. imp.)

Tanukhid
K.(R. client)

Mesopotamia(R. imp.)

Przeworsk
culture

Rhysaddir?(M.T.)

Sep 249–Jun 251Decius rules
Roman Empire

?? 250–Jun 251Goths and Carpi ravage
Moesia and Thrace

Apr 250–?? 270Plague devastates
Roman Empire

250Licinianus in
revolt in Rome

251Priscus in
revolt in Thrace

Jun 251–Aug 253Trebonianus Gallus
rules Roman Empire

Jun 251Goths defeat and
kill Decius at Abritus

251–270Roman coinage debased
by 90% over two decades

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