The Battle of Adrianople sent shock waves through the Roman world.

It demonstrated that Gothic forces could defeat a Roman imperial army in open battle — something that had rarely happened before.

And it left the Balkan provinces in a state of ongoing military emergency.

The settlement of the Gothic crisis after Adrianople involved complex negotiations and the formal incorporation of Gothic peoples as foederati within Roman territory, but it did not restore the kind of security that had characterized the earlier Roman Balkans.

The Balkan provinces remained a zone of military tension, raiding, and periodic violence throughout the late fourth and early fifth centuries.