Vandal_Kingdom
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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, and a barbarian kingdom established under Gaiseric (or Genseric), a Vandalic warlord. It ruled parts of North Africa and the Mediterranean for 99 years from 435 to 534 AD. In 429 AD, an estimated 80,000 Vandals, using their boats, crossed
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Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans | |||||||||||||
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| 435–534 | |||||||||||||
Coin depicting Gelimer (530–534)
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The Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans in 476 | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Hippo Regius (435–439) Carthage (439–534) | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Latin (spoken by elite and clergy) Vulgar Latin and African Romance (spoken by common people) Vandalic (spoken among elite) Punic (spoken among common people) Alanic (spoken among Alanic elite) Numidian (spoken among common people in rural areas) Medieval Greek (spoken among common people) | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Arianism (among elite) Nicene Christianity then Chalcedonian Christianity | ||||||||||||
| Government | Pre-feudal Monarchy | ||||||||||||
| King | |||||||||||||
• 435–477 AD | Gaiseric | ||||||||||||
• 477–484 AD | Huneric | ||||||||||||
• 484–496 AD | Gunthamund | ||||||||||||
• 496–523 AD | Thrasamund | ||||||||||||
• 523–530 AD | Hilderic | ||||||||||||
• 530–534 AD | Gelimer | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| 435 | |||||||||||||
• Conquest by the Byzantine Empire | 534 | ||||||||||||
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- States and territories established in the 430s
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