Talk:Battle of the Tanais River

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I'm not sure this "battle" merits a separate article. As far as I'm aware, the sole source is one sentence fragment in Ammianus Marcellinus:

The Huns, after invading the regions of the Alans -- who are neighbors of the Greuthungi and whom custom has named Tanaites -- and killing many of them and plundering their possessions, incorporated the survivors in their forces and formed an alliance...

What authority is there for calling this unnamed invasion "the Battle of the Tanais River"? For that matter, what indication is there that it even took place on the Tanais River?

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