Some eighty thousand Vandals, a Germanic tribe,…

388 CE to 531 CE

Some eighty thousand Vandals, a Germanic tribe, cross into Africa from Spain in 429, led by their king, Genseric.

In the following year, the invaders advance without much opposition to Hippo Regius, which they take after a siege in which Augustine dies.

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Hippo Regius > Annaba (Bône) Annaba Algeria View →

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Augustine of Hippo View → Genseric View →

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Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh) View → Numidians View → Africa proconsularis (Roman province) View → Vandals (East Germanic tribe) View → Mauretania Tingitana (Roman province) View → Mauretania Caesariensis (Roman province) View → Numidia (Roman Province) View → Donatism View → Christianity, Nicene View → Roman Empire: Theodosian dynasty (Constantinople) View → Roman Empire, Western (Ravenna) View →

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Faith View → Government View →

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