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The Decline - By Jasmine Karpinski

"Geiseric, one of the most powerful personalities of the "era of the Migrations," died at a great age on 25 January 477. According to the law of succession which he had promulgated, the oldest male member of the royal house was to succeed. Thus he was succeeded by his son [|Huneric] (477–484), who at first tolerated Catholics, owing to his fear of Constantinople, but after 482 began to persecute [|Manichaeans] and Catholics in the most terrible manner.

[|Gunthamund] (484 – 496), his cousin and successor, sought internal peace with the Catholics and ceased persecution once more. Externally, the Vandal power had been declining since Geiseric's death, and Gunthamund lost large parts of Sicily to the [|Ostrogoths] and had to withstand increasing pressure from the [|autochthonous] [|Moors]" - wikipedia search

After the death (477) of Gaiseric, however, the Vandals declined quickly as a dominant power. In 533, Justinian I sent against them an army under Belisarius, which after meeting weak resistance, captured Carthage. With this overwhelming defeat the Vandals ceased to exist as a nation.

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