Vandals - The Germanic Kingdom of North Africa

The Germanic tribes migrated and settled all across Europe, but did you know they also settled in North Africa?

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Håkan Glänte "We the people"

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#Medieval_History #Germans #North_Africa

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[BlueMountain]

I can't believe Alan ravaged Gaul, I thought he was a top bloke :(

[Grasslander]

This is interesting, but what about the Vandal sacking of Rome? This is what truly made "Vandal" a negative word. This was in 455, 45 years after the Visigoth sacking of Rome. (The Germanic tribes were industrious. But likewise, two thirds of the Roman army were now made up of Germanic auxiliaries.) Emperor Valentinian's widow, Eudoxia, was forced to marry Petronius, who had killed Valentinian and taken the throne. Eudoxia's daughter had been betrothed with the Vandal King Genseric's son, but she was now forced to marry Petronius' son. Eudoxia asked the Vandals for help. The Vandals sailed for Rome, knocked down the aqueducts, and made Petronius and his men flee. A Roman mob stoned Petronius to death outside the city. The pope asked the Vandals to go easy on the city and they agreed. They didn't burn and slaughter, but they looted for two weeks, and took some Romans as slaves. Eudoxia and her two daughters were brought back to Carthage, where they were treated well.

[Tibibt]

What do you mean the rolling sands and arid lands of North Africa 😂😂😂. North Africa was Rome's breadbasket, the climate is not different than say Sicily, or Southern Spain. We have mountains, forests rivers etc. The vandals probably hunted boars and deers in our woods.

[lorddervishquinterosara]

Can't believe you left out their biggest feat, the sacking of Rome

[YoussefDaanBenAmor]

They play an incredibly important role in the history of pre Islamic North Africa. Many of there local traditions still persist in Tunisia showing there influence has lasted a bit.

[sirine]

I'm from the north west of Tunisia, our region is berber, and there are vandals mixed with berbers, we have entire tribes and families with blond hair and colored eyes in the region who have vandals ancestors.

[Geenmoer]

Im Tunisian from el Djem famous for its Roman amphitheatre. I have blue eyes and so did my grandfather. In our village 10km from el Djem we have more families with blue/green eyes. I always assumed it to be a sign of Berber origin but who knows it could also be mixed with vandal genes? My grandfather looked like an Eastern European or Balkan people.

[lammah]

In 428 AD, Hippo Regius (Annaba in modern-day Algeria) was besieged by the Vandals for 14 months. Saint Augustine, the bishop of Hippo Regius, died during this time, and in 431 the city fell, and it was reduced to ashes, all but the cathedral, which escaped, together with St. Augustine's library.

[alazraq]

Vandals are the reason muslims named the iberian peninsula as Al-Vandalus or Al-Andalus, as they heard iberian peninsula was the homeland of the Vandals.

[davidkoch]

North Africa has always been part of the metatrainian world. A giant desert separates it from the rest of Africa.

[faisca]

Incredible as always, Know History!! Very interesting, keep it up.

[AzizAmri-ld]

*Writing on Google this "The origin of Vandals" : Originating from Scandinavia, the Vandals migrated to several regions all across Europe as a part of the Migration Period when many people groups migrated into Europe and contributing to the fall of the Roman Empire. The Vandals settled in many places including Gaul, Hispania, and North Africa as they migrated*

[iyaibeji]

Swabian, Goths, Visigoth, frankish and Vandals are all Germanics tribes, that reason blood, Red Blues, green, grey eyes are in north Africa and southern european

[emilianohermosilla]

It’s amazing how many German kingdoms existed after the fall of Rome. Ostrogoths, Vandals, Visigoths, maybe even the Frankish empire, it’s quite amazing how any of them didn’t make it.

[valhalla]

Fun fact of the day. The mascot of the university of Idaho is a Vandal. 😊

[ferrjuan]

9:23 Correction what you meant to call the religion of both halves of the Roman Empire is “Nicene Christianity” not Catholicism since East and West haven’t split off into the Great Schism of 1054, so Catholicism wasn’t a thing yet. The Vandals did practice Arian Christianity though and hated Nicene Christianity for labeling them heretical. Nicene Christianity was the mainstream branch of Christianity largely practiced by the late Roman Empire and eventually due to language, culture and politics by the 11th century would split off into the Latin Catholic West and the Greek Orthodox East.

[MausOfTheHouse]

I like how you use CK3 characyer models and maps in your videos

[lammah]

In 526 AD, Gelimer, the last ruler of the North African Kingdom of the Vandals, retreated to the mount Pappua (present-day mount Edough, near Annaba, Algeria) before surrendering to Byzantine forces in 534 AD.

[mindhistorydocumentary]

Beyond their reputation as destroyers, the Vandals were skilled seafarers and rulers who established a powerful kingdom in North Africa. A captivating look into the true story of this often misunderstood tribe!

[ronaldwinfield]

I have always been interested in the Vandals. In this video I learned details about how they crossed the strait of Gibraltar.