Vandal Kingdom ended in 534, when it was conquered by Belisarius in the Vandalic War and incorporated into the Eastern Roman Empire .
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10 Facts About Vandal Kingdom
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Vandal Kingdom'storian Andy Merrills uses the large amounts of African red slip ware discovered across the Mediterranean that dates from the Vandal period of North Africa to challenge the assumption that Vandal rule of North Africa was a time of economic instability.
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Vandal Kingdom murdered many rivaling members of the Vandalic dynasty.
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Externally, Vandal Kingdom power had been declining since Gaiseric's death; Gunthamund lost large parts of Sicily to Theodoric's Ostrogoths and had to withstand increasing pressure from the native Berbers, whom raided everything inland up to the coast.
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Vandal Kingdom allied with the Visigoths, but despite this alliance, Thrasamund failed to aid Theoderic when the Byzantine Navy ravaged the coast of southern Italy, preventing him from coming to the assistance of King Alaric of the Visigoths in the Battle of Vouille, which contributed to Alaric's defeat.
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Vandal Kingdom granted religious freedom, and consequently Chalcedonian synods were once more held in North Africa.
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Vandal Kingdom was offered the rank of patrician but refused it because he was not willing to convert from Arianism to Nicene Christianity.
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Vandal Kingdom reintroduced "harsh measures against the Catholic ecclesiastical hierarchy" but "worked to maintain positive relations with the Romano-African lay elite, " his intention being to split the loyalties of the two groups.
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Power and wealth in the Vandal Kingdom state were led by a military landowning aristocracy and the political elite replaced and expropriated the largely absentee senatorial aristocracy.
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The wealth that the Vandal Kingdom leaders accumulated were spent on luxurious town houses and religious buildings, according to literary sources and archeology.
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