Polity · 439 CE – 533 CE
Vandal Kingdom
- Peak recorded area
- 270,644 km²
- 469 CE
- Rulers on record
- 6
- from 435 CE
- Data series
- 5
- 442 CE–533 CE
Overview
The Vandal Kingdom or Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans was a confederation of Vandals and Alans, and a barbarian kingdom established under Gaiseric, a Vandalic warlord. It ruled parts of North Africa and the Mediterranean for 99 years from 435 to 534 AD.
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Territory
8 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
The record
The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 533 CE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.
Military
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Battle Count | 1battles533 CE · Historical Conflict Events Dataset (HCED v3) |
| Battle Losses | 1battles lost533 CE · Historical Conflict Events Dataset (HCED v3) |
| Battle Scale Avg | 4Lehmann-Zhukov 1-5533 CE · Historical Conflict Events Dataset (HCED v3) |
Development
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Known Ancient Places2 obs · 442 CE–456 CE | 1,549places456 CE · Pleiades Gazetteer |
| Known Ancient Settlements2 obs · 442 CE–456 CE | 633settlements456 CE · Pleiades Gazetteer |
Rulers
6 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Geisericking of the Vandals435 CE – 477 CE
- Hunericking of the Vandals477 CE – 484 CE
- Gunthamundking of the Vandals484 CE – 496 CE
- Thrasamundking of the Vandals496 CE – 523 CE
- Hildericking of the Vandals523 CE – 530 CE
- Gelimerking of the Vandals530 CE – 534 CE
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
Historical Conflict Events Dataset (HCED v3)v3
Brecke, P. Conflict Catalog (Historical Conflict Events Dataset), digitized v3.
Academic use, attribution
Pleiades Gazetteer2024 snapshot
Bagnall, R. et al. (eds.). Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places.
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Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Vandal Kingdom is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.