Vandals
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The Vandals were a group of Germanic peoples who were first mentioned in passing by a small number of Roman writers in the first and second centuries, but became more prominent starting in the late se
Vandal cavalryman, c. 500, from a mosaic pavement at Bordj Djedid near Carthage
Vandal, painted by Lucas de Heere, 16th century
Neck ring with plug clasp from the Vandalic Treasure of Osztrópataka displayed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria
Vandalic gold foil jewelry from the 3rd or 4th century
Western Roman Empire
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In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the Roman Empire's western provinces collectively during any period in which they were administered separately from the eastern provinces by a se
Gold solidus of Honorius
Boxwood relief depicting the liberation of a besieged city by a relief force, with those defending the walls making a sortie. Western Roman Empire, early 5th century AD
6th-century Visigothic coin, struck in the name of Emperor Justinian I
Odoacer's Italy in AD 480, following the annexation of Dalmatia