What is Vandals?
[[File:Heinrich Leutemann, Plünderung Roms durch die Vandalen (c. 1860–1880).jpg|thumb|250px|The Vandals were usually thought of as a horde of people pillaging and burning things. This is a colored steel engraving of the Sack of Rome (455) by [[Heinrich Leutemann]] (1824–1904), c 1860–80]] The '''Vandals''' were an [[:en:List_of_early_Germanic_peoples#East_Germanic_peoples_(Vandilians)|East Germanic tribe]] located in now southern Poland. They entered the late [[Roman Empire]] during the [[5th century]]. The Vandals may have given their name to the region of [[Andalusia]], which according to one of several theories of its [[etymology]] was originally called ''Vandalusia'' or land of the Vandals. This would be the source of ''[[Al-Andalus]]'' — the Arabic name of [[Iberian Peninsula]],<ref>Dozy, Reinhart P. 1881. Recherches sur l'histoire et la littérature des Arabes d'Espagne pendant le Moyen-Age.</ref> in the south of present-day [[Spain]], where they settled before pushing on to create a Vandal Kingdom in [[North Africa]]. The [[Goths|Goth]] [[Theodoric the Great]], king of the [[Ostrogoths]] and [[regent]] of the [[Visigoths]], was allied by marriage with the Vandals, as well as with the [[Burgundians]] and the [[Franks]] under [[Clovis I]]. [[Byzantine Empire]] forces under [[Justinian I]] conquered the Vandalic African kingdom in 534. ==References== {{reflist}} {{multistub|history|Europe}} [[Category:Germanic tribes]]