Hasdingi
The Hasdingi were one of the
Roman era. The Vandals were Germanic peoples, who are believed to have spoken an East Germanic language, and were first reported during the first centuries of the Roman empire in the area which is now Poland, eastern Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia
.
Famously, the Hasdingi led a successful invasion of Roman North Africa, creating a kingdom with its capital at Carthage in what is now Tunisia.
During the
Carpathian and Pannonian areas which are now in Hungary and Romania. At the end of 406, they participated together with Silingi Vandals and Sarmatian Alans in the crossing of the Rhine. Their king Godigisel lost his life in battle against the Franks
during the crossing.
After some years in
Iberian peninsula
.
The Hasdingi settled in
Barbarian territories to be founded before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
.
.
Gunderic was succeeded by his brother Gaiseric in 428 AD, who subsequently fled from Iberia to North Africa where he established a kingdom at Carthage.
See also
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- Haddingjar, who appear to be late reflections of the Hasdingi in Norse mythology.
- Migrations period
- The western Alans and Vandals
- Timeline of Germanic kingdoms