Siafu X
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Post by Siafu X on Dec 28, 2005 21:12:25 GMT -5
what happend to the Vandals in NOrth Africa did they just submerge into the Berber population or are there still pockets of them in N.Africa??
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Post by wendland on Dec 29, 2005 2:00:37 GMT -5
Probably the same as happened to other migrating peoples who weren't so very numerous... they were absorbed. It happened to the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Franks, Varangians, Burgundians, and others.
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Post by Crimson Guard on Dec 29, 2005 3:13:59 GMT -5
Germanic Invaders of North Africa didnt last long,they where later beaten and driven out by the Eastern Roman Imperial forces.
North Africa was heavily Romanized(were talking Colonies) for around almost 1000 years,and yet their doesnt seem to be much DNA trade either
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Post by kibou on Dec 29, 2005 5:30:19 GMT -5
History is not apocalyptic ... Invasion doesn't mean massive rapes and melting-pot ( except in colony-towns hence the name ). The success of an invasion depends on the acculturation of the elites.
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Post by Siafu X on Dec 30, 2005 1:14:39 GMT -5
can any1 give any links to info concerning Vandals in north Africa??
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Post by curiousman on Dec 30, 2005 3:30:47 GMT -5
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Post by Cerdic on Dec 30, 2005 15:04:17 GMT -5
After Justinian's conquest of the Vandals their king, Gelimer, was taken to Constantinople to grace a triumph. Afterwards he was given lands in Anatolia and made a Roman patrician. Many Vandals were pressed into the Roman army where they were incorporated into the Foederati. As such they were mostly settled, with their families, in the East where they would be useful in defending the Empire against the Persians. The East Romans dismantled the Vandals as a people, though they did it with the minimum of personal cruelty to individuals.
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