11) 39. The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West. Wells, H.G. 1922. A
Short History of the World
...The Franks and other German tribes had come up to the Rhine. In north Hungary were the Vandals; in what was once Dacia and is now Roumania, the Visigoths or West...
12) Seville. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...Guadalquivir River north-northeast of Cadiz. An important settlement under the Romans, Vandals, and Visigoths, it was conquered by the Moors in a.d. 712 and later...
13) Basiliscus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(475-76). He was responsible for the failure of the expedition sent (468) against the Vandals by his brother-in-law Leo I. He usurped the throne during the reign...
14) Belisarius. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...suppress (532) the dangerous Nika riot (see Blues and Greens), he defeated (533-34) the Vandals of Africa, and captured their king. In 535 he was given command of...
15) 58857. Thoreau, Henry David. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...a standing army for that service; but we have no ally against our Friends, those ruthless Vandals. ATTRIBUTION:Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher,...
16) Scourge of God. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...s Chronicle the Huns are called Virga Dei. (*, 434-453.) 1 (2) Gen seric, king of the Vandals, who went about like a destroying angel "against all those who had,...
17) Tripolitania. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...was later held by Carthage, Numidia, and Rome (after 46 b.c.). Tripolitania fell to the Vandals in a.d. 435, to the Arabs in the seventh century, and finally to the...
18) Sardinia. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...the sixth century b.c., the island was taken by Rome in 238 b.c. and later fell to the Vandals (fifth century a.d.) and the Byzantines (early sixth century). Numerous...
19) Tunisia. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...6th century b.c. by the Carthaginians, the area later fell to the Romans (2nd century b.c.), Vandals (5th century a.d.), and Byzantines (6th century) before being...
20) Leo I, Byzantine emperor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of Germans in the Roman army by enlisting Isaurians. A naval expedition (468) against the Vandals of Africa failed through the incompetence or treachery of the commander,...
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