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Adrianople is either a victory or butterflied away entirely; emperor at the time can be anyone of your chosing up to and including Julian the Apostate; presumbly the Visigoths would be settled somewhere in upper Mesopotamia, perhaps with their capital being Nisibis, in order to act as a buffer state wrt the Sassanids; this way, Rome would have no more direct border with Persia, instead relying on Armenians, Visigoths and Ghassanids as their first line of defense

Can this work? Does this solve most of the problems faced by late antiquity Rome?
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