Talk:Battle of Nicopolis ad Istrum

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Conflicting result of the Battle?
Hello, I've been looking up information about this battle in several different sources and apparently what's written here doesn't make any sense. As mentioned by Jordanes: "The Goths, seeing Decius' armies arrive, withdrew to the Haemus (Balkan) mountains. This doesn't mention any kind of battle in any way, so why is it assumed that Decius' armies caught the Goths off guard and routed them?

Looking for answers I found two completely differring sources: Herwig Wolfram in his book "History of the Goths" claims that Cniva had already sacked the city before Decius arrived to the scene, with Cniva leaving to the Balkan mountains on his own accord before Decius had even made an appearance. On the other hand, the "Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire", written by Charles Bunson, claims what is written here, "Decius surprised the Goths at Nicopolis (c. 249) and inflicted upon them a terrible defeat." Where did any of the two authors get this information from? How is it possible that two very different results are proposed for an engagement that possibly didn't even happen?

Also, the bibliography mentioned in this article is broken. The link to livius.org doesn't work and the second further reading just leads to Marcus Aurelius' war, which is completely unrelated to the topic.

--SRAbian (talk) 11:15, 5 February 2021 (UTC)