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  2. Gaiseric - Wikipedia

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    Gaiseric (c. 389 – 25 January 477), [1] also known as Geiseric or Genseric (Latin: Gaisericus, Geisericus; reconstructed Vandalic: *Gaisarīx) [a] was king of the Vandals and Alans from 428 to 477. He ruled over a kingdom and played a key role in the decline of the Western Roman Empire during the 5th century.

  3. Vandal War (439–442) - Wikipedia

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    The Vandal War (439–442) was a military conflict between the Western Roman Empire and the Vandals that was fought in the western Mediterranean Sea region.The main protagonists in this conflict were the Vandal king Geiseric and the commander-in-chief of the Roman army Aetius.

  4. Vandal War (461–468) - Wikipedia

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    Geiseric, fearing the Roman invasion, tried to make peace with Majorian, who rejected this. [5] Geiseric then used other means. Traitors paid by the Vandals set fire to the fleet on 13 May 460. Even before the army arrived, the fleet was destroyed. Majorian canceled the attack on the Vandals and had to disband the large army he had raised.

  5. Vandals - Wikipedia

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    The Vandals under Genseric (also known as Geiseric) crossed to Africa in 429. [56] Although numbers are unknown and some historians debate the validity of estimates, based on Procopius' assertion that the Vandals and Alans numbered 80,000 when they moved to North Africa, [ 57 ] Peter Heather estimates that they could have fielded an army of ...

  6. Vandal Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The Vandal Kingdom (Latin: Regnum Vandalum) or Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans (Latin: Regnum Vandalorum et Alanorum) was a confederation of Vandals and Alans, which was a barbarian kingdom established under Gaiseric, a Vandalic warlord.

  7. Vandalic War - Wikipedia

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    The Vandals occupied Roman North Africa in the early 5th century and established an independent kingdom there. Under their king, Geiseric, the Vandal navy carried out pirate attacks across the Mediterranean, sacked Rome in 455, and defeated a Roman invasion in 468.

  8. Sack of Rome (455) - Wikipedia

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    The Vandals landed at Ostia, located at the mouth of the Tiber only a few miles southwest of Rome. Maximus tried to flee Rome, but was spotted by an angry mob and stoned to death before being thrown into the Tiber. [11] Before approaching, the Vandals knocked down the aqueducts that supplied water to the city. [12]

  9. Capture of Carthage (439) - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Hippo Regius (May 430 to July 431) ended unsuccessfully for the Vandals. Peace was made on 30 January 435 between the emperor Valentinian III and Gaiseric. The emperor was to retain Carthage and the small but rich proconsular province in which it was situated, while Hippo and the other six provinces of Africa were abandoned to the ...