Vandals

Rouran epoch Göktürk epoch Uyghur epoch Kirghiz epoch

Rouran First Göktürk Tang rule Second Göktürk Uyghur Kirghiz Huns Western Göktürk Türgesh Karluk Khazar

Rouran 400–554
First Göktürk 552–630
Tang rule 630–682
Second Göktürk 682–744
Uyghur 744–840
Kirghiz 840–924
Huns 370–469
Western Göktürk 552–659
Türgesh 699–766
Karluk 766–800
Khazar 650–969

The Vandals were the people whom their king Gaiseric led from Spain into Africa.^[1] In 439, Gaiseric took Carthage.^[2]^[3]

The eastern empire sent a fleet against them. The fleet was recalled when the Huns broke into the Balkan provinces in the war of 441. In 442, the eastern empire made peace with the Vandals.^[4]^[5] Priscus counts the Vandals, who harassed the coasts, among the enemies that made the eastern Romans obey Attila in everything.^[6] In 455, after the murder of the emperor Valentinian III, Gaiseric came from Africa with a war fleet. He entered Rome and laid it waste.^[7]

References

^ Jordanes; Mierow 1915, § 167–169, p. 97–98
^ Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 108
^ Thompson 1948, p. 78
^ Thompson 1948, p. 81
^ Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 111
^ Priscus; Müller 1851, fr. 6, p. 76
^ Jordanes; Mierow 1915, § 235, p. 117

Sources

Jordanes (after Priscus and Ammianus Marcellinus)
Priscus

Literature

Charles Christopher Mierow, The Gothic History of Jordanes in English Version, with an Introduction and a Commentary (1915)
Karl Müller (ed.), Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, Bd. IV (darin: Menandri Protectoris fragmenta, griechisch mit lateinischer Übersetzung) (1851)
Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen, The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture (1973)
E. A. Thompson, A History of Attila and the Huns (1948)