The Vandals, German sex, spend 429 AD, after having cl crossed the Central and Western Europe, cl (Roman time) North Africa. Manage to establish the kingdom, cl which stretched roughly the areas of Algeria, Tunisia and Libya bordering the Mediterranean. 439 The Vandals will understand Carthage, will acquire a fleet of well-trained and will be able to become masters of Sicily, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands. The 455 will occupy Rome itself, which will plunder wild. Justinian (527-565 AD) will move under the reconquista of old Roman territories and against the Vandals. General Belisarius will catalyze, after two business years (533-534), the kingdom cl and will return (535) as a winner in Istanbul. Together brings rich booty and captive king of the Vandals Gelimera.
9 Reaching the Belisarius to Byzantium with Gelimera and Vandilous (= the Vandals), accepted values similar to those previously attributed to the Roman generals who won the biggest and most important victories. Since then they had spent about six hundred years without anyone else experienced such prices except Titus and Trajan and other emperors who had fought cl against a barbaric nation and had won. Belisarios displayed the spoils and prisoners of war in the city and made procession, which the Romans call it a triumph, but not in the traditional way but marching cl on foot from his home as the Hippodrome. And the valves reached the place where stood the throne of the king (= Justinian). The loot was too much and had set apart those who went to the king and the Palace, which was golden thrones and vehicles that only the wife of King uses too many jewels and precious stones, cups of gold and all other things needed in a royal table. There was even, silver weighing tens of thousands of talents, and all the royal treasures (mean Vandal kings), who arrived in large amounts; Gizerichos the (= king of the Vandals from 428 to 477 AD) had plundered the Palace of Rome (455 AD), as mentioned earlier, where among other relics were kept and the Jews (including the menorah, the seven-branched lamp. The triumphal arch erected by his brother Domitian Titus in Rome after the fall of Jerusalem, illustrated Roman soldiers carrying on their shoulders the light - as loot now) who had moved to Rome by Titus, son of Ouespasianou, and some others after the fall of Jerusalem (AD 70 = .). One of the Jews, when they saw these things, approached one of their acquaintances of the king and said: "These riches I think there is interest in getting into the Byzantine Palace. And it suits them more space beyond space where he put before Solomon, King of Jews. For these riches the Gizerichos conquered Rome, and now the Roman army overthrew the rule of Vandilon. " When they heard the king, afraid and quickly sent to the sanctuaries of Christians in Jerusalem. Among them was the triumph and Gelimer himself, who wore a purple gown that buttoned shoulders, along with all his family and those of their Vandilous was tall and had nice bodies. When he entered the Hippodrome Gelimer and saw the king sitting on a high pitch and people standing right and left, to understand how bad position found; however, neither wept nor cried, only repeating incessantly cl the Hebrew saying "Vanity of vanities, cl everything vanity. cl " When he reached the front step of the king, took away the robe and forced him to kneel and pray Justinian. What did the Belisarius, since he and the Gelimera was suppliant before the king. Justinian and Theodora donated to children Ilderichou cl (= king of the Vandals, from 523 to 533. Policy approach with Byzantium that followed, and the negative attitude towards Arianism, Christian heresy espoused by the Vandals, provoked reactions that culminated in the overthrow of the Gelimera. This was also the occasion of the Byzantine campaign against the Vandals) and their descendants, and relatives cl of the king Valentinian (Emperor of the Western Roman Empire from 425 to 455 m . X. He was assassinated in 455 AD Shortly after the Vandals conquered and sacked Rome.'s wife Eudoxia, cl Valentinian Licinius, and his daughters, Eudocia and wafer transferred to Carthage), enough cl money. And in Gelimera gave estates, not insignificant, in Gaul and allowed him to live there with his family and relatives. But Gelimer not recorded
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