Vandalen#
Vandals, East Germanic people, evidence of settlement in the 4th century in Pannonia, moved from Pannonia across Austria to Gaul and Spain in 406, together with the rest of the Alani and the Suebi; they were Arian Christians. King Gaiseric (429-39) founded the first independent Germanic kingdom on Roman territory in North Africa. The Vandals controlled the Mediterranean Sea with their fleet and sacked Rome in 455. Their kingdom was conquered in 533/34 by the Byzantine general Belisarius.