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en-wikipedia-org-2276		Valens - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	7735	779	67	He was the younger brother of the emperor Valentinian I, who gave Valens the eastern half of the Roman Empire to rule. Valens returned from the east to fight the Goths in person, but lack of coordination with his nephew, the western emperor Gratian (Valentinian I's son), as well as poor battle tactics, led to Valens and much of the eastern Roman army dying at a battle near Adrianople in 378. According to the 5th-century Greek historian Socrates Scholasticus, while serving as a protector domesticus, Valens refused pressure to offer sacrifice in ancient Roman religion during the reign of the pagan emperor Julian.[13] It was the general opinion that Valentinian needed help to handle the cumbersome administration, civil and military, of the large and unwieldy empire, and, on 28 March of the same year, at the express demand of the soldiers for a second augustus, he selected his brother Valens as co-emperor at the Hebdomon, before the Constantinian Walls.[22][23]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2276.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2276.txt