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88 relations: Alans, Alaric I, Algeria, Ancient Rome, Arianism, Augustine of Hippo, Balearic Islands, Barbarians Rising, Basiliscus, Battle of Agrigentum (456), Battle of Calama, Battle of Mérida (428), Bonifatius, Byzacena, Byzantine Empire, Candidus Isaurus, Capture of Carthage (439), Carthage, Catholic Church, Chris Wickham, Christianity, Corsica, Crossing of the Rhine, Dalmatia, Eudocia (daughter of Valentinian III), Flavius Aetius, Foederati, Franks, Gento (son of Genseric), Germanic peoples, Godigisel, Gold, Guadiana, Gunderic, Heremigarius, Hilderic, Hippo Regius, Hispania, Hispania Baetica, Huneric, Italy, Jordanes, Kohlhammer Verlag, Lake Balaton, Licinia Eudoxia, Lusitania, Majorian, Malta, Maniots, Marcellinus (magister militum), ... Expand index (38 more) »
- 389 births
- 477 deaths
- 5th century in the Byzantine Empire
- 5th-century monarchs in Africa
- Africa (Roman province)
- Kings of the Vandals
- Mauretania
- Vandal warriors
Alans
The Alans (Latin: Alani) were an ancient and medieval Iranic nomadic pastoral people who migrated to what is today North Caucasus – while some continued on to Europe and later North-Africa.
Alaric I
Alaric I (𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃, Alarīks, "ruler of all"; c. 370 – 411 AD) was the first king of the Visigoths, from 395 to 410.
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Arianism
Arianism (Ἀρειανισμός) is a Christological doctrine considered heretical by all modern mainstream branches of Christianity.
Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
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Balearic Islands
The Balearic Islands (Illes Balears; Islas Baleares or) are an archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Barbarians Rising
Barbarians Rising is an American docudrama television series which aired on History Channel.
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Basiliscus
Basiliscus (Basilískos; died 476/477) was Eastern Roman emperor from 9 January 475 to August 476.
Battle of Agrigentum (456)
The Battle of Agrigentum was fought in 456 A.D. at Agrigentum, now Agrigento in modern-day Sicily.
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Battle of Calama
The Battle of Calama was fought between the West Roman Empire and the Vandals in the war known as the Vandalian conquest of North-Africa.
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Battle of Mérida (428)
The Battle of Mérida was fought between the Suebi and the Vandals at modern Mérida, Spain, in 428.
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Bonifatius
Bonifatius (or Bonifacius; also known as Count Boniface; died 432) was a Roman general and governor of the diocese of Africa.
Byzacena
Byzacena (or Byzacium) (Βυζάκιον, Byzakion) was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis. Gaiseric and Byzacena are Africa (Roman province).
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Candidus Isaurus
Candidus Isaurus (fl. 491) was an Eastern Roman historian.
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Capture of Carthage (439)
Carthage was captured by the Vandals from the Western Roman Empire on 19 October 439.
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Carthage
Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Chris Wickham
Christopher John Wickham (born 18 May 1950) is a British historian and academic.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Corsica
Corsica (Corse; Còrsega) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France.
Crossing of the Rhine
The crossing of the Rhine River by a mixed group of barbarians which included Vandals, Alans and Suebi is traditionally considered to have occurred on the last day of the year 406 (December 31, 406).
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Dalmatia
Dalmatia (Dalmacija; Dalmazia; see names in other languages) is one of the four historical regions of Croatia, alongside Central Croatia, Slavonia, and Istria, located on the east shore of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia.
Eudocia (daughter of Valentinian III)
Eudocia or Eudoxia (439 – 466/474?) was the eldest daughter of Roman emperor Valentinian III and his wife, Licinia Eudoxia.
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Flavius Aetius
Flavius Aetius (also spelled Aëtius;; 390 – 454) was a Roman general and statesman of the closing period of the Western Roman Empire.
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Foederati
Foederati (singular: foederatus) were peoples and cities bound by a treaty, known as foedus, with Rome.
Franks
Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.
Gento (son of Genseric)
Gento was the fourth and youngest son of Genseric, the founder of the Vandal Kingdom in Africa, and father of the vandal kings Gunthamund and Thrasamund. Gaiseric and Gento (son of Genseric) are 477 deaths, kings of the Vandals and vandal warriors.
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Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
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Godigisel
Godigisel (359–406) was King of the Hasdingi Vandals until his death in 406. Gaiseric and Godigisel are 5th-century monarchs in Europe, kings of the Vandals and vandal warriors.
Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.
Guadiana
The Guadiana River (also), is an international river defining a long stretch of the Portugal-Spain border, separating Extremadura and Andalusia (Spain) from Alentejo and Algarve (Portugal).
Gunderic
Gunderic (Gundericus; 379–428), King of Hasding Vandals (407-418), then King of Vandals and Alans (418–428), led the Hasding Vandals, a Germanic tribe originally residing near the Oder River, to take part in the barbarian invasions of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century. Gaiseric and Gunderic are 5th-century monarchs in Europe, kings of the Vandals and vandal warriors.
Heremigarius
Heremigarius (also Hermigarius or Hermegarius) (fl. 427–428) was a Suevic military leader operating in Lusitania in the early fifth century.
Hilderic
Hilderic (460s – 533) was the penultimate king of the Vandals and Alans in North Africa in Late Antiquity (523–530). Gaiseric and Hilderic are kings of the Vandals.
Hippo Regius
Hippo Regius (also known as Hippo or Hippone) is the ancient name of the modern city of Annaba, Algeria.
Hispania
Hispania (Hispanía; Hispānia) was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula.
Hispania Baetica
Hispania Baetica, often abbreviated Baetica, was one of three Roman provinces created in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) on 27 BC.
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Huneric
Huneric, Hunneric or Honeric (died December 23, 484) was King of the (North African) Vandal Kingdom (477–484) and the oldest son of Gaiseric. Gaiseric and Huneric are 5th-century monarchs in Africa and kings of the Vandals.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Jordanes
Jordanes (Greek: Ιορδάνης), also written as Jordanis or Jornandes, was a 6th-century Eastern Roman bureaucrat, widely believed to be of Gothic descent, who became a historian later in life.
Kohlhammer Verlag
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Lake Balaton
Lake Balaton is a freshwater rift lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary.
Licinia Eudoxia
Licinia Eudoxia (Greek: Λικινία, 422 – c. 493) was a Roman Empress, daughter of Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II.
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Lusitania
Lusitania was an ancient Iberian Roman province encompassing most of modern-day Portugal (south of the Douro River) and a large portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and Province of Salamanca).
Majorian
Majorian (Latin: Iulius Valerius Maiorianus; died 7 August 461) was the Western Roman emperor from 457 to 461.
Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.
Maniots
The Maniots or Maniates (Μανιάτες) are an ethnic Greek subgroup that traditionally inhabit the Mani Peninsula; located in western Laconia and eastern Messenia, in the southern Peloponnese, Greece.
Marcellinus (magister militum)
Marcellinus (died August 468) was a Roman general and patrician who ruled over the region of Dalmatia in the Western Roman Empire and held sway with the army there from 454 until his death.
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Mauretania
Mauretania is the Latin name for a region in the ancient Maghreb.
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.
Naples
Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.
North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
Numidia
Numidia was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up Algeria, but later expanding across what is today known as Tunisia and Libya.
Odoacer
Odoacer (– 15 March 493 AD), also spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, was a barbarian soldier and statesman from the Middle Danube who deposed the Western Roman child emperor Romulus Augustulus and became the ruler of Italy (476–493). Gaiseric and Odoacer are 5th-century monarchs in Europe.
Pannonia Prima
Pannonia Prima was an ancient Roman province.
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Peloponnese
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesus (Pelopónnēsos) or Morea (Mōrèas; Mōriàs) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans.
Petronius Maximus
Petronius Maximus (31 May 455) was Roman emperor of the West for two and a half months in 455.
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Placidia
Placidia was a daughter of Valentinian III, Roman emperor of the West from 425 to 455, and from 454/455 the wife of Olybrius, who became western Roman emperor in 472.
Pope Leo I
Pope Leo I (400 – 10 November 461), also known as Leo the Great, was Bishop of Rome from 29 September 440 until his death.
Priscus
Priscus of Panium (Πρίσκος; 410s AD/420s AD-after 472 AD) was a 5th-century Eastern Roman diplomat and Greek historian and rhetorician (or sophist).
Procopius
Procopius of Caesarea (Προκόπιος ὁ Καισαρεύς Prokópios ho Kaisareús; Procopius Caesariensis; –565) was a prominent late antique Greek scholar and historian from Caesarea Maritima.
Quodvultdeus
Quodvultdeus (Latin for "what God wills", died 450 AD) was a fifth-century Church Father and Bishop of Carthage who was exiled to Naples.
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine (distributed in the US as: Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire, Italian: Sant'Agostino) is a 2010 two-part television miniseries chronicling the life of St. Augustine, the early Christian theologian, writer and Bishop of Hippo Regius at the time of the Vandal invasion (AD 430).
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Roman emperor
The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Sack of Rome (455)
The Sack of Rome in 455 AD marked a pivotal moment in European history when the Vandals, a Germanic tribe led by King Genseric, invaded the city.
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Sardinia
Sardinia (Sardegna; Sardigna) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy.
Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Siege of Hippo Regius
The siege of Hippo Regius was a siege from June 430 to August 431, carried out by the Vandals under their king Gaiseric against Roman defenders under Boniface, Count of Africa.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
Strait of Gibraltar
The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Europe from Africa.
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Suebi
The Suebi (also spelled Suevi) or Suebians were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic.
Theodoric the Great
Theodoric (or Theoderic) the Great (454 – 30 August 526), also called Theodoric the Amal, was king of the Ostrogoths (475–526), and ruler of the independent Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy between 493 and 526, regent of the Visigoths (511–526), and a patrician of the Eastern Roman Empire. Gaiseric and Theodoric the Great are 5th-century monarchs in Europe.
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Tripolitania
Tripolitania (طرابلس), historically known as the Tripoli region, is a historic region and former province of Libya.
Usurper
A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy.
Valentinian III
Valentinian III (Placidus Valentinianus; 2 July 41916 March 455) was Roman emperor in the West from 425 to 455.
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Vandal Kingdom
The Vandal Kingdom (Regnum Vandalum) or Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans (Regnum Vandalorum et Alanorum) was a confederation of Vandals and Alans, which is one of the barbarian kingdoms established under Gaiseric, a Vandal warrior.
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Vandalic language
Vandalic was the Germanic language spoken by the Vandals during roughly the 3rd to 6th centuries.
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Vandalism
Vandalism is the action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.
Vandals
The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland. Gaiseric and Vandals are Mauretania.
Visigoths
The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity.
Western Roman Empire
In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the western provinces of the Roman Empire, collectively, during any period in which they were administered separately from the eastern provinces by a separate, independent imperial court.
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Zakynthos
Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; Zákynthos; Zacinto) or Zante (Tzánte; from the Venetian form, traditionally Latinized as Zacynthus) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.
Zeno (emperor)
Zeno (Zénōn; – 9 April 491) was Eastern Roman emperor from 474 to 475 and again from 476 to 491.
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See also
389 births
- Gaiseric
477 deaths
- Armatus
- Baoxian (nun)
- Basina of Thuringia
- Buyeo Gonji
- Gaiseric
- Gento (son of Genseric)
- Great Eight Families
- Latter Deposed Emperor of Liu Song
- Liu Bing (official)
- Lu Xiujing
- Munju of Baekje
- Timothy II of Alexandria
- Yang Wendu
- Yuan Can
5th century in the Byzantine Empire
- 447 Constantinople earthquake
- Battle of Cotyaeum
- Battle of the Utus
- Bir el Qutt inscriptions
- Byzantine Empire under the Leonid dynasty
- Byzantine Empire under the Theodosian dynasty
- Byzantine–Sasanian War of 440
- Cistern of Aspar
- Epitaph of Samuel
- Gaiseric
- Georgian graffiti of Nazareth and Sinai
- Henotikon
- Isaurian War
- Leonid dynasty
- Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae
- Palaestina Prima
- Palaestina Secunda
- Praetorian prefecture of Illyricum
- Praetorian prefecture of the East
- Rhetorical school of Gaza
- Samaritan revolts
- Umm Leisun inscription
5th-century monarchs in Africa
Africa (Roman province)
- Africa (Roman province)
- Africa (goddess)
- African Romance
- African red slip ware
- Arzugitana
- Battle of Ruspina
- Battle of Thapsus
- Byzacena
- Centenarium
- Christianity in the Roman Africa province
- De Bello Africo
- Diocese of Africa
- Fossa Regia
- Gaiseric
- Gildonic War
- History of Roman-era Tunisia
- Limes Tripolitanus
- Musulamii
- Neptune Triumph and the House of Sorothus mosaic
- Roman Africans
- Tacfarinas
- Zaghouan Aqueduct
- Zeineb Benzina
Kings of the Vandals
- Fredebal
- Gaiseric
- Gelimer
- Gento (son of Genseric)
- Godigisel
- Gunderic
- Gunthamund
- Hilderic
- Huneric
- Thrasamund
- Wisimar
Mauretania
- Gaiseric
- Juba (Roman metrician)
- Kingdom of Mauretania
- Mauretania
- Mauretania Caesariensis
- Mauretania Tingitana
- Mauri
- Sufax
- Vandals
- Zerco
Vandal warriors
- Ammatus
- Gaiseric
- Gelimer
- Gento (son of Genseric)
- Godigisel
- Gunderic
- Guntarith
- Stilicho
- Tzazo
- Wisimar
References
Also known as Gaiseric or Genseric, Gaiseric the Lame, Geiseric, Geiserich, Genseric, Genserich, Ghizeric, King Gaiseric.