In the early 370s, Athanaric successively fought Fritigern in a civil war, only to later be defeated by the invading Huns.

The Huns avoided this small force and attacked Athanaric directly.

* Athanaric, Gothic leader of the Tervingi, advanced eastwards and takes up a defensive position along the banks of the Dniester ( Romania ).

Centered around their capital at the Dnieper, the Goths ruled a vast area which at its peak under the Kings Ermanaric and Athanaric stretched from the Danube to the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea.

With a part of the Ostrogoths on the run, the Huns next came to the territory of the Visigoths, led by Athanaric.

He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I to Alaric II as the heirs of the fourth-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostrogothic kings from Theodoric the Great to Theodahad as the heirs of the Greuthungian king Ermanaric.

In 348, to escape religious persecution by a Gothic chief, probably Athanaric he obtained permission from Constantius II to migrate with his flock of converts to Moesia and settle near Nicopolis ad Istrum in modern northern Bulgaria.

These Goths, more specifically the Thervingi, were at the time under the leadership of Athanaric and had apparently remained peaceful since their defeat under Constantine in 332.

Athanaric pled for treaty terms and Valens gladly obliged.

He identified the Visigothic kings from Alaric I to Alaric II as the heirs of the 4th-century Tervingian king Athanaric and the Ostrogothic kings from Theodoric the Great to Theodahad as the heirs of the Greuthungian king Ermanaric.

* The Visigothic chieftain Athanaric becomes the first foreign king to visit the East Roman capital of Constantinople.

Athanaric dies 2 weeks later after an 18-year reign in which he has been undisputed king of all the Goths for just 1 year.

* The Visigothic chieftain Fritigern dies after ravaging the Balkans ; his rival Athanaric becomes king of the entire Gothic nation.

* Athanaric starts building new defensive works to protect his people against the Alans and the Huns.

* Fritigern becomes king of the Visigoths amidst hostilities with his rival Athanaric, he asked Valens and the Thracian field army to intervene.

Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, and Zosimus refer to conflicts between Fritigern and Athanaric.

According to Socrates, Fritigern and Athanaric were rival leaders of the ( Therving ) Goths.

As this rivalry grew into warfare, Athanaric gained the advantage, and Fritigern asked for Roman aid.

The Emperor Valens and the Thracian field army intervened, Valens and Fritigern defeated Athanaric, and Fritigern converted to Christianity, following the same teachings as Valens followed.

Sometime after their victory at Adrianople, and after the accession of Theodosius, Fritigern, Alatheus, and Saphrax moved north of the Danube and defeated Athanaric, before returning south of the Danube.

In this period a civil war may have broken out between Fritigern and Athanaric, a prominent Therving ruler.

Nevertheless, Athanaric seems to have won this war.

This is deduced by historians from the fact that Athanaric would later lead the Thervingi in battle against the Huns in 376.

Athanaric (; ; died 381 ) was king of several branches of the Thervingian Goths for at least two decades in the fourth century.

Athanaric made his first appearance in recorded history in 369, when he engaged in battle with the Eastern Roman Emperor Valens and ultimately negotiated a favorable peace for his people.

During his reign, many Thervings had converted to Arian Christianity, which Athanaric vehemently opposed, fearing that Christianity would destroy Gothic culture.

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Schweitzer notes that St. Paul apparently believed in the immediacy of the " Second Coming of Jesus ": " Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord " ( 1 Thessalonians 4. 17 ).

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The French commanders were, however, divided as to how to utilise the Nebel: Tallard's tactic – opposed by Marsin and the Elector who felt it better to close their infantry right up to the stream itself – was to lure the allies across before unleashing their cavalry upon them, causing panic and confusion ; whilst the enemy was struggling in the marshes, they would be caught in crossfire from Blenheim and Oberglauheim.

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" Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

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On 17 January 2011, police in Nemi, Italy, announced that they believed they had discovered the site of Caligula's burial, after arresting a thief caught smuggling a statue which they believed to be of the emperor.

To be " caught in the crossfire " is an expression that often refers to unintended casualties ( bystanders, etc.

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In the earliest days of the forward pass, the pass would have to be caught in-bounds, and could not be thrown across the goal line ( as the receiver would be out of bounds ).

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