any idea why the text will not fit into the area? sorry for the hard to read post.

here is a start on some research. as i find more i'll post it including links.

What is known about the Vandals? There is only 3 famous Vandals that I know of, Stilicho, Gunderic and Genseric (sometimes spelled Gaiseric).

The Vandals: AD 406-439

A.D. 406. the four peoples which participated in the invasion: the two Vandal peoples, the Asdings and the Silings, and their allies, the Sueves and the Alans. some people claim the Burgundians took part of this migration as well but that is not deminative. Lead by Gunderic.

Unlike the Visigoths and the Franks, the Vandals make no pretence of cooperating with Rome. On the last day of December 406, together with other barbarian tribes, they cross the frozen Rhine near Mainz. For the next three years they ravage Gaul, before moving south in 409 into Spain. They establish themselves there until, in 417, they are invaded by the Visigoths (acting on behalf of the Romans).

"By 429 the Visigoths have conquered most of the Iberian peninsula. The Vandals move on south, crossing to north Africa under the leadership of a young king, Gaiseric. In 439 Gaiseric inflicts a serious defeat on the Romans, capturing the important city of Carthage."

The core tribe of the Suebi were the Semnones, but other tribes emanated from the Suebi, such as the Quadi and the Marcomanni and probably also the Hermunduri. The Suebi tribal group also included the Alamanni and the Langobards, who stayed in germania. The alamanni founded swabia and the langobards who became the lombards and conquered northern italy.

406 AD

jan 00 - A combined barbarian force of Suevi, Alans, Vandals, and Burgundians swept into central Gaul, severing contact between Rome and Britain.

aug 23 - Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians.

fall 406 AD - The remaining Roman army in Britain mutinies. Marcus was proclaimed emperor in Britain, but was immediately assassinated.

dec 31 - 80,000 Vandels attack the Rhine at Mainz.

dec 31 - Godagisel, king of the Vandals, dies in battle.

http://din-timelines.com/0400-0449_timeline.shtml

A really good resource for all German migrations.

http://www.friesian.com/germania.htm

In 406, the VANDALS, together with other migrating barbaric peoples, crossed the Rhine and, in 409, settled down in Roman Spain, establishing their new kingdom called, after them, Vandalusia

The Vandals split in two groups, the ASDING VANDALS who settled down briefly in western Spain, together with the Suevi, and in the SILING VANDALS, who settled in the urban province of BAETICA. Efforts were made by the Romans to expel them, to no avail. The Asding and Siling Vandals reunited and in 428, under KING GAISERIC, crossed the Straits of Gibraltar conquering the province of Africa, one of the Roman Empire's breadbaskets. The Vandals stayed in Andalusia for only two decades. Yet the impact they made was of such a nature that the region still is named after them.

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