Vandals Sentence Examples

There was no room for vandals and foolishness.

Keep in mind the vandals and thugs are out at night.

Some changes were eventually necessitated by the wars with the Moors and the Vandals.

Under Julian it recovered some of its importance as a fortified town, and was able to withstand the attacks of the Vandals.

Destroyed by the Vandals, Caesarea regained some of its importance under the Byzantines.

Lost to Rome by the invasion of the Vandals, who took Carthage in 439, the province was recovered by Belisarius a century later (533-34), and remained Roman till the Arab invasions of 648-69.

In North Africa Manichaeism appears to have been extinguished by the persecution of the Vandals.

Goths, Vandals, Suebi, Burgundians and Langobardi embraced it; here too as a distinctive national type of Christianity it perished before the growth of medieval Catholicism, and the name of Arian ceased to represent a definite form of Christian doctrine within the church, or a definite party outside it.

His reign is marked by the dismemberment of the Western Empire; the conquest of the province of Africa by the Vandals in 439; the final abandonment of Britain in 446; the loss of great portions of Spain and Gaul, in which the barbarians had established themselves; and the ravaging of Sicily and of the western coasts of the Mediterranean by the fleets of Genseric. As a set-off against these calamities there was the great victory of Aetius over Attila in 451 near Chalons, and his* successful campaigns against the Visigoths in southern Gaul (426, 4 2 9, 436), and against various invaders on the Rhine and Danube (428-31).

The Goths and the Vandals who poured down upon the Roman Empire were evangelized so silently and rapidly that only a fact here and there relating to their conversion has been preserved.

It was held by Vandals, Byzantines and Arabs, and when Mulai Idris passed from Tlemcen to Fez in 788, Tangier was "the oldest and most beautiful city" of the Maghrib.

It deals chiefly with the struggles of the Byzantine army, under the command of the eunuch Narses, against the Goths, Vandals, Franks and Persians.

He had not indeed "penetrated to the city," but his invasion of Italy had produced important results; it had caused the imperial residence to be transferred from Milan to Ravenna, it had necessitated the withdrawal of the Twentieth Legion from Britain, and it had probably facilitated the great invasion of Vandals, Suevi and Alani into Gaul, by which that province and Spain were lost to the empire.

On the whole Mauretania was in a flourishing condition down to the irruption of the Vandals in A.D.

After repelling an attack by the Vandals upon Campania (458) he prepared a large force, composed chiefly of barbarians, to invade Africa, which he previously visited in disguise.

In 407 it was destroyed by the Vandals, and having been partially rebuilt, came into the hands of the Franks.

Among the Lugii we may probably include the Silingae, who afterwards appear among the Vandals in Spain, and whose name is preserved in Slavonic form in that of the province Silesia.

The next important conflict with the Romans was the Marcomannic War (166180), in which all the Suebic tribes together with the Vandals (apparently the ancient Lugii) and the Sarmatian lazyges seem to have taken part.

According to tradition the Vandals had been driven into Pannonia by the Goths in the time of Constantine.

In the west the Alamanni and the descendants of the Marcomanni, now called Baiouarii (Bavarians), had broken through the frontiers of the Roman provinces of Vindelicia The Rurand Noricum at the beginning of the gth century, gundians while the Vandals together with some of the Suebi andother and the non-Teutonic Alani from tile east crossed tribes.

When the Persian War was suspended and Belisarius was despatched against the Vandals of Africa in 533, Procopius again accompanied him, as he subsequently did in the war against the Ostrogoths of Italy, which began in 535.

In 428 or 429 he led a great host of Vandals from Spain into Roman Africa, and took possession of Mauretania.

At the end of fourteen months Gaiseric raised the siege of Hippo; but Boniface was forced to fly to Italy, and the city afterwards fell into the hands of the Vandals.

Turning his attention in another direction he built a fleet, and the ravages of the Vandals soon made them known and feared along the shores of the Mediterranean.

He also carried with him many captives, including the empress Eudoxia, who is said to have invited the Vandals into Italy.

Though the effect of his victories was afterwards neutralized by the successes of Belisarius, his name long remained the glory of the Vandals.

Another tribe called Silingae by Ptolemy likewise appears among the Vandals at a later time.

The Vandals figure in the earliest legends both of the Goths and the Lombards, both of whom they are said to have encountered unsuccessfully.

One, the Asdingian Vandals, occupied Galicia, the other, the Silingian, Andalusia.

The Silingian Vandals were well-nigh exterminated, but their Asdingian brethren (with whom were now associated the remains of a Turanian people, the Alani, who had been utterly defeated by the Goths) marched across Spain and took possession of Andalusia.

Notwithstanding his opposition, the progress of the Vandals was rapid, and by May 430 only three cities of Roman Africa - Carthage, Hippo and Cirta - remained untaken.

After this the Vandals disappear from history.

It is probably from the Alamannic region that those Suebi came who joined the Vandals in their invasion of Gaul, and eventually founded a kingdom in north-west Spain.

Thence they invaded the territories of the Ulmerugi (the Holmryge of Anglo-Saxon tradition), probably in the neighbourhood of Riigenwalde in eastern Pomerania, and conquered both them and the neighbouring Vandals.

For the origin of the Goths can hardly be separated from that of the Vandals, whom according to Procopius they resembled in language and in all other respects.

Jordanes records several traditions of their conflicts with other Teutonic tribes, in particular a victory won by Ostrogotha over Fastida, king of the Gepidae, and another by Geberic over Visimar, king of the Vandals, about the end of Constantine's reign, in consequence of which the Vandals sought and obtained permission to settle in Pannonia.

He drove the Vandals out of Dacia, compelled the allegiance of the neighbouring tribes of West Goths, procured the submission of the Herules, of many Slav and Finnish tribes, and even of the Esthonians on the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia.

This function was effectually discharged in Spain by the Vandals and their associates, who plundered far and wide, and then by the Visigoths.

When in 428 Gaiseric, king of the Vandals (q.v.), accepted the invitation of Bonifacius, the count of Africa, and passed cut of Spain to found the Vandal kingdom of Carthage, his whole horde numbered only 80,000 persons, including old men, women and children, and runaway slaves who had joined him.

He destroyed the Alans, and drove the Vandals and Suebi into the north-west.

Southern Spain was overrun and plundered by the Vandals before their departure for Africa.

Majorian (457461), the last capable emperor of the \Vest, proposed to make Spain the basis of his attack on the Vandals at Carthage till his fleet was destroyed by them in the harbour of Carthagena.

De feated the Vandals and Alans.

The real vandals are the advertisers who erected these billboards without our permission, often without even planning permission.

It can keep vandals from altering your Web page and prevent industrial competitors from reading your confidential documents.

A new yellow cowling has been fitted to this unit to prevent vandals from climbing upon the buffers.

Instead, he has been forced to fit a metal grille which has failed to deter vandals.

Would the, presumably, very young ' vandals ' ever think to do anything so heinous inside a religious building?

Later news The Cricket Pavilion, destroyed by Vandals is to be rebuilt by Kent out of insurance money.

Repair to cover damaged by Vandals is in hand.

It was removed by some Vandals about the end of the eighteenth century.

The Dixie Dean Memorial Statue outside Goodison, Home of Everton FC, has been attacked by Vandals who painted the statue red.

Newark Parish Church has again been targeted by Vandals.

Reduction in repair costs of damage caused by Vandals.

Instead, he has been forced to fit a metal grille which has failed to deter Vandals.

Also, tuck in wing mirrors and put the aerial down to discourage Vandals.

There has to be a fair chance of not attracting Vandals.

They are working closely with the Council and the British Transport Police, who are the acknowledged experts on beating graffiti Vandals.

Even rural stops will be modern perspex and lit to stop Vandals, and be a death trap to birds.

Now, some mindless Vandals have struck at a cemetery in Potton.

In total police now have seventy names of suspected graffiti Vandals around the Caterham area thanks to PCSO Seymour's work.

Do you support the vigilantes that chased vandals that damaged cars in Paston?

Afterwards it was inhabited by the Germanic Quadi, who accompanied the Vandals in their westward migration; and they were replaced in the 5th century by the Rugii and Heruli.

Tacitus himself records a variant form of the genealogy (see above), according to which Mannus had a larger number of sons, who were regarded as the ancestors of the Suebi, Vandilii, Marsi and others (see Suebi, Vandals).

Thence they set out under the leadership of Ibor and Aio, the sons of a prophetess called Gambara, and came into conflict with the Vandals.

With new " reparation orders " Kingston magistrates can soon require vandals to clean up graffiti mess.

Two nights later, vandals in Basildon slashed the tires on a Traveler 's vehicle.

Later news The Cricket Pavilion, destroyed by vandals is to be rebuilt by Kent out of insurance money.

Repair to cover damaged by vandals is in hand.

It was removed by some vandals about the end of the eighteenth century.

The Dixie Dean Memorial Statue outside Goodison, Home of Everton FC, has been attacked by vandals who painted the statue red.

Newark Parish Church has again been targeted by vandals.

Reduction in repair costs of damage caused by vandals.

Also, tuck in wing mirrors and put the aerial down to discourage vandals.

There has to be a fair chance of not attracting vandals.

They are working closely with the Council and the British Transport Police, who are the acknowledged experts on beating graffiti vandals.

Even rural stops will be modern perspex and lit to stop vandals, and be a death trap to birds.

In total police now have seventy names of suspected graffiti vandals around the Caterham area thanks to PCSO Seymour 's work.

Roloff Farms, famous for being the residence of the Roloff family from TLC's Little People Big World, has been hit by vandals, who have destroyed signs in unthinkable manners.

Since the signs are scattered across the property and on the roads leading up to it, there have been no eyewitnesses on hand to catch the vandals in the act.

This song by the Vandals was released in 1996.

Adding to the problems, vandals have knocked over gravestones and defaced the grounds.

Purportedly, many of the fans of the Vandals were not too pleased.

This coverage is for when your car is stationary and something happens to it, such as vandals breaking in.

I've got enough ammo to outlast any vandals.

Although in the course of its long history it has undergone many sieges and was sacked at various epochs by the Vandals, Normans, French and Spaniards, it preserves many monuments of its ancient days.

In the autumn of 169 two of the German tribes, the Quadi and the Marcomanni, with their allies the Vandals, Iazyges and Sarmatians, renewed hostilities and, for three years, Aurelius resided almost constantly at Carnuntum.

He subsequently served for nineteen years under Ardaburius and Aspar, and took part in the wars against the Persians and Vandals.

During the Vdlkerwanderung Mainz suffered severely, being destroyed on different occasions by the Alamanni, the Vandals and the Huns.

Hippo was captured by the Vandals under Genseric in 431, after a siege of fourteen months, during which Augustine died.

Local histories containing more or less ecclesiastical material were written in the 6th and following centuries by Jordanes (History of the Goths), Gregory of Tours (History of the Franks), Isidore of Seville (History of the Goths, Vandals and Suevi), Bede (Ecclesiastical History of England), Paulus Diaconus (History of the Lombards), and others.

The Phoenicians, the Romans, the Vandals, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the Turks and the French, all came from the east or from the north.

In 456 he defeated the Vandals in a sea-fight near Corsica, and on land near Agrigentum in Sicily, and backed by the popularity thus acquired, Ricimer then gained the consent of the Roman senate to an expedition against the emperor Avitus, whom he defeated in a bloody battle at Piacenza on the 16th of October 456.

In the following century the Vandals settled in Pannonia (western Hungary), while the Goths occupied Dacia, which had now been given up by the Romans, and subsequently took possession also of large territories to the south of the lower Danube.

In 4069 the Vandals and other tribes invaded Gaul from the east and subsequently took possession of Spain and north-western Africa.

The first to accept the new religion seem to have been the Goths, beginning about the middle of the 4th century, and the Vandals must have followed their example very quickly.

In the 5th century the province was overrun by successive invaders - Vandals, Suevi and Visigoths - from the first of whom it may possibly derive its name.

This step is said to have been taken at the instigation of Boniface, the Roman general in Africa; if true, Boniface soon repented of his action, and was found resisting the Vandals and defending Hippo Regius against them.

There does not seem to be in the story of the capture of Rome by the Vandals any justification for the charge of wilful and objectless destruction of public buildings which is implied in the word "vandalism."

Internally, however, it was rapidly declining, the once chaste and hardy Vandals being demoralized by the fervid climate of Africa and the sinful delights of their new capital, and falling ever lower into sloth, effeminacy and vice.

This battle was far more stubbornly contested than that of Ad Decimum, but it ended in the utter rout of the Vandals and the flight of Gelimer.

The Vandals who were carried captive to Constantinople were enlisted in five squadrons of cavalry and sent to serve against the Parthians under the title "Justiniani Vandali."

The African conquests of Belisarius gave the Goths of Spain, instead of the Arian Vandals, another Catholic neighbour in the form of the restored Roman power.

Allying himself with the Franks and Vandals, he led his vast many-nationed army to the Rhine in the spring of 451, crossed that river, and sacked, apparently, most of the cities in Belgic Gaul.

From the Romans the town passed to the Vandals and afterwards to Byzantium, the emperor Justinian restoring its fortifications in 535.

But his successes against the Vandals and Goths caused Chosroes to begin the war again in S40.

Despite what Mrs. Watson had said of vandals, the apartment was untouched.