Vandals
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The Vandals were a Germanic people who rose to prominence during the decline of the Roman Empire, eventually establishing a powerful kingdom in North Africa in the 5th century. They matter historically because they were major players in the fall of Rome and shaped the political landscape of the Mediterranean world during the early Middle Ages.
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27 sectionsContents
- Name
- Classification
- History
- Origins
- Early classical sources
- Lugii
- Przeworsk culture
- Language
- Introduction into the Roman Empire
- In Britannia
- In Gaul
- Kingdom in North Africa
- Establishment
- Sack of Rome
- Consolidation
- Domestic religious tensions
- Decline
- Turbulent end
- List of kings
- Family tree of the kings of Vandals
- Latin literacy
- Legacy
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
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The Vandals were a Germanic people who were first mentioned in the written records as the inhabitants of what is now Poland, during the period of the Roman Empire. Much later, in the 5th century, a group of Vandals led by kings established Vandal kingdoms, first within the Iberian Peninsula, and then in the western Mediterranean islands and North Africa.