Vandal conquest of Roman Africa
Gaiseric led the Vandals and Alans from Spain into Africa in 429 and in 439 seized Carthage, founding a kingdom that deprived the Western Empire of its richest provinces.
- Date
- May 429 – 442start: month known; end: year known · duration: ≈ 13 years
- Place
- Carthagetoday: Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia · Africa
- Participants
- Vandals, Gaiseric, Western Roman Empire
- Threads
- Europe in the Roman age (1st–5th c.)
- Also known as
- Fall of Carthage 439; Vandal Kingdom; Захват Карфагена вандалами; Королевство вандалов
In May 429 some 80,000 people — the whole Vandal and Alan host with their families — crossed the Strait of Gibraltar. Moving east, they besieged Hippo Regius for fourteen months (430–431); its bishop, Augustine, died during the siege. A treaty of 435 made them federates in Numidia and Mauretania, but on 19 October 439 Gaiseric seized Carthage by surprise, without resistance.
The treaty of 442 recognised the Vandal kingdom in Africa Proconsularis and Byzacena. The loss of Africa’s grain and taxes was a heavy blow to the West; from Carthage the Vandal fleet raided the Mediterranean and in 455 sacked Rome. The kingdom lasted until the Byzantine reconquest of 533–534.
Connections
Causes and preconditions
- Crossing of the Rhine31 December 406 · Western and Central Europe
Consequences
- Vandal sack of Rome2–16 June 455 · Western and Central Europe
Related events
- Vandalic WarJune 533 – March 534 · AfricaJustinian destroyed the kingdom that the Vandals had founded a century earlier
Same participants
- Sack of Rome by the Visigoths24–27 August 410 · Western and Central Europevia Western Roman Empire
- Battle of the Catalaunian Plains20 June 451 · Western and Central Europevia Western Roman Empire
Meanwhile in the world
Other regions, within 25 years of this event
Western and Central Europe
- Battle of the Catalaunian Plains20 June 451
- Vandal sack of Rome2–16 June 455
- Sack of Rome by the Visigoths24–27 August 410
- Crossing of the Rhine31 December 406
- End of Roman rule in Britain383–410
Eastern Europe
- Chernyakhov culturebetween 200 and 250 – between 400 and 430
- Kyiv culturec. 200 – between 400 and 430
- Early Slavic cultures: Prague-Korchak, Penkovka and Kolochinc. 450 – c. 700
Balkans and Anatolia
- Council of Chalcedon8 October – 1 November 451
The same period
Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Vandal conquest of Roman Africa
- Wikipedia (Russian): Королевство вандалов и аланов
- Merrills A., Miles R. The Vandals. — Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- Wikidata: Q11789247