2) 3. The Vandals. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...3. The Vandals 406 The Vandals crossed the Rhine near the Main, followed the Moselle and Aisne (sacking Reims, Amiens, Arras, Tournai), then turned southward into...

3) Vandals. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...Vandals A people of northern Europe, known for their cruelty and destructiveness, who invaded the Roman Empire and plundered Rome itself in the fifth century. 1 The...

4) Flins [a stone]. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...An idol of the ancient Vandals settled in Lusace. It was a huge stone, draped, wearing a lion s skin over its shoulders, and designed to represent death. Mr. Lower...

5) Genseric. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...King of the Vandals (428-477) who invaded Africa (429), captured Carthage and made it his capital (439), and sacked Rome (455)....

6) Gaiseric. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Gaiseric, (gi´srik) (KEY) or Genseric (gen´srik, jen´-) (KEY) , c.390-477, king of the Vandals and Alani (428-77), one of the ablest of the barbarian invaders of...

7) Vandal. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...way for what he terms "improvements," or to indulge his own caprice. When Gen seric with his Vandals captured Rome in A.D. 455, he mutilated the public monuments...

8) e. The Later Fifth Century. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...set up Petronius Maximus at Rome. On his murder, in the same year, she called the Vandals from Africa. 1 455, June 2-16 Gaiseric and the Vandals sacked Rome. 2 456...

9) Stilicho, Flavius. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Roman general who defended the Western Empire from the invading Goths and Vandals....

10) Ricimer. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
..., d. 472, Roman general of the tribe of the Suebi. After winning (456) two victories over the Vandals, he allied with the senate and deposed (456) Emperor Avitus....