Vandals
From Metapedia
The Vandals was a Nordic people that lived on the Danish island Zealand (Danish: (Sjælland) in ancient times. The name is derived from the two-bladed sword (vandil, which means "that you can turn around") that was the distinguishing feature of the Vandal warrior.
When the Vandals moved south just after year 0 AD they settled east of the river Elbe. They continued their journeys south and participated in the Markomanner wars around 166-180 AD. Constantin I thanked them for their help by giving them places to live in Pannonia.
In the beginning of the 400th century they were forced to battle the Franks to be able to cross the river Rhen. They got help by the Alanians and the Suebis and managed to break through. They continued their journeys to the south and reached the Iberian peninsula (Spain). The Vandals where now divided in two main branches; The asdings and the silingers. The later group fought the Visigoths in the year of 416 and lost. The rest of the group of silingers settled down in Andalusia (Vandalusia) in southern Spain. Under the leadership of Geiseric they crossed the strait of Gibraltar to Africa in the year of 429, where they defeated the Romans in Carthage and built a new empire in the region. In the year of 455 Rome was attacked and plundered by the Vandals, who were disciplined soldiers. Their skilled, but unrestrained and often incorrectly described, warfare against Rome has been the origin to the terms Vandalisation and Vandalism.
The eastern roman mility forces attacked Carthage under the leadership of Flavius Belisarius in the year of 553. The battle at Tricamerum was the beginning of the end for the Vandal rule.
