Vandal War (461–468)
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The Vandal War was a long-term conflict between the two halves of the Roman Empire on the one hand and the Vandals in North Africa on the other. The war revolved around hegemony in the Mediterranean a
Geiseric sacking Rome in 455, painted by Karl Bryullov
Vandalic War
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The Vandalic War was a conflict fought in North Africa between the forces of the Byzantine Empire and the Germanic Vandal Kingdom. It was the first war of Emperor Justinian I's Renovatio imperii Roman
Vandal War (461–468)
…revolution in Carthage in 531 finally gave the Roman Empire, which then existed only in the East, the desired opportunity for intervention and led to the Vandal War (533–534). Anderson, W. B. (2012) [1936]. Sidonius: Poems and Letters, Vol. I: Poems, Letters, Book I-II. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-99327-3…
Mosaic of a Vandal horseman, Carthage, c. 500
A member of the retinue of Emperor Justinian I in the mosaic in the Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, which is usually identified with Belisarius
Fifty-denarii coin of Gelimer
Drawing of a medallion commemorating the Roman victory in the Vandalic War, c. 535