Vandal Kingdom

State · 439–533 CE · at its largest around 469 CE

A Germanic kingdom in North Africa founded when Gaiseric took Carthage in 439. Its fleet sacked Rome in 455; Belisarius reconquered it for Byzantium in 533–534.

On its lands while it lasted

• Volubilis (400 BCE – 1710 CE): Capital of Mauretania (212 BCE–42), Idrisids (793–974).
• Migration of the Vandals (406–439 CE): The Vandals crossed the Rhine into Gaul around the end of 406, moved into Hispania in 409, crossed to North Africa under Gaiseric in 429 and captured Carthage in 439.
• Hippo Regius (c. 439 CE): Capital of Vandal Kingdom (439–439).
• Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 CE – 547 CE): Italian monk whose Rule for monasteries became the foundation of Western monasticism; he founded the abbey of Monte Cassino.
• Barcelona (c. 507 CE): Capital of Visigothic Kingdom (507–542), Catalonia (1640–1641), Second Spanish Republic (1932–1938).

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