Vandals

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• Vandals — • A Germanic people belonging to the family of East Germans Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Vandals     Vandals     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Vandals — The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century. The 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… …   Wikipedia

• Vandals —    One of the barbarian peoples who established successor kingdoms in the deteriorating remnants of the Western Empire in the fifth century. Although active from the early fourth century, the Vandals only established a kingdom of any consequence… …   Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe

• Vandals — The Vandals The Vandals auf der Warped Tour 2007. Gründung 1980 Genre Punk Website …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Vandals —    Germanic people who crossed the Rhine (q.v.) in 406, moved into Spain (q.v.), and who in 429 crossed into North Africa (q.v.). In 439 they seized Carthage (q.v.), and they soon created a pirate fleet that menaced the coasts of Sicily, Sardinia …   Historical dictionary of Byzantium

• Vandals —    , VANDALISM    The original Vandals (their name perhaps meant wanderers) were a savage Teutonic tribe from northeast Germany that flourished in the fifth century. According to historical records, a horde of 80,000, led by their king, Genseric …   Dictionary of eponyms

• Vandals — noun a) An east Germanic tribe that once lived in north Africa and sacked Rome. b) ; members of the Vandals tribe …   Wiktionary

• VANDALS —    a fierce nation of the Teutonic race, who, from the NE. of Europe, invaded Rome on the E., mutilating and destroying the works of art in the city …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• vandals — Van·dal || vændl n. one who purposefully destroys or damages something that is beautiful or something that belongs to someone else …   English contemporary dictionary

• VANDALS — …   Useful english dictionary