Gelimer
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Gelimer was the last Germanic king of the Vandals and Alans and the North African Vandal Kingdom. He was the great-grandson of Geiseric with claims to the throne. He seized the throne after deposing h
Obverse of a "50 denarii" with a bust of Gelimer, inscribed: D N REX G-EILAMIR
A decorated plate (missorium) of Gelimer, inscribed at the well: † GEILAMIR REX VANDALORVM ET ALANORVM (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Belisarius presenting his Vandal captive, King Gelimer, to Emperor Justinian I (the wife of the emperor stands behind him), lithograph by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (c. 1840)
Vandal Kingdom
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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
Gelimer
…Gelimer (r. 530–534) was the last Germanic king of the Vandals and Alans and the North African Vandal Kingdom. He was the great-grandson of Geiseric with claims to the throne. He seized the throne after deposing his first cousin once removed, Hilderic, whose…
View from the Gibraltar strait to North Africa where the Vandals crossed into Africa.
The Sack of Rome, painting by Karl Briullov from the 1830s.
A 16th century perception of the Vandals, illustrated in a manuscript. Painted by Lucas d'Heere. Preserved in the Ghent University Library.