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    Rome. The Gepids were defeated by the Lombards and Avars a century later in 567, when Constantinople gave no support to them. Some Gepids joined the...
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    whom he promised the Gepids' land if they defeated them. The Gepids were destroyed by the Avars and the Lombards in 567. Gepid King Cunimund was killed...
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    Cunimund, king of the Gepids, and wife of Alboin, king of the Lombards. Rosamund was born into a kingdom in crisis, as the Gepid people had been fighting...
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    their larger neighbours the Gepids and Lombards broke out, but this rebellion was repressed by Justinian. In 549, when the Gepids fought the Romans, and Heruli...
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    forces of the subject peoples under the leadership of Ardaric, king of the Gepids, defeated the Hunnic forces of Ellac, the son of Attila, who had struggled...
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    the Gepids. The Lombard king Audoin defeated the Gepid leader Thurisind in 551 or 552, and Audoin's successor Alboin eventually destroyed the Gepids in...
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  • brother-in-law of Sigebert, who sought an alliance to crush his old enemies the Gepids. The latter, by chance, controlled the only practical way from the Lower...
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  • Thurisind (category Gepid kings)
    died c. 560) was king of the Gepids, an East Germanic Gothic people, from c. 548 to 560. He was the penultimate Gepid king, and succeeded King Elemund...
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    local population into submission, but their empire collapsed in 454. The Gepids took possession of the former Dacia province. Place names that are of Slavic...
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    and conflict between the Lombards and their main neighbours, the Gepids. The Gepids initially gained the upper hand, but in 567, thanks to his alliance...
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  • Mundus (magister militum) (category Gepid warriors)
    mentioned as a commander of the Gepids and Heruli in Pannonia in the 520s. In 529, in the context of new battles between the Gepids and Byzantines, Mundus and...
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    Cunimund (category Gepid kings)
    was the last king of the Gepids, falling in the Lombard–Gepid War (567) against the Lombards and Pannonian Avars. The Gepids had held the important city...
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    The Period of the Great Migrations (271–895); The Kingdom of the Gepids; The Gepids during and after the Hun Period". In Köpeczi, Béla; Barta, Gábor;...
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    Mauricius (born before 520 – 536) was a Gepid general fighting for the Byzantine Empire. He was the son of Magister militium Mundus. He was presumably...
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  • brother Dengizich. Ardaric unites the Gepids with other Germanic tribes, and founds the Kingdom of the Gepids in the Pannonian Basin. The Vandals conquer...
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  • Ardaric (category Gepid kings)
    Ardaric (Latin: Ardaricus; fl. c. 450 AD) was the king of the Gepids, a Germanic tribe closely related to the Goths. He was "famed for his loyalty and...
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    of the most important peoples within this empire were the Gepids and the Goths. The Gepid king Ardaric came to power around 440 and participated in various...
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    Franks Ripuarian Franks Salian Franks Frisiavones Frisii Gambrivii Geats Gepids Goths Crimean Goths Greuthungi Gutones Ostrogoths Thervingi Thracian Goths...
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    Europe for naming years. The Lombard–Gepid War (567) ends with a Lombard-Avar victory, and the annihilation of the Gepids. Sigebert I, king of Austrasia, marries...
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  • a Gepid king, based on the inscription on a gold ring called Omharus. At Apahida, near Cluj-Napoca, three princely tombs attributed to the Gepids were...
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    their empire disintegrated and the Gepids conquered the region in 455, under King Ardaric. For two centuries, the Gepids controlled Transylvania. The Ostrogoths...
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    Totila was slain by the Gepid Lancer Asbadus. Belligerents Byzantine Empire Mercenaries: Foederati Lombards Heruli Gepids Ostrogothic Kingdom Commanders...
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  • Baduarius, assists the Gepids in their war against the Lombards. The Byzantines win the first battle in the lower Danube (Moesia), but Gepid King Cunimund refuses...
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    distributed by lot". A coalition of Germanic tribes, led by Ardaric, king of the Gepids, revolted against such slavery treatment, and "so they were armed for mutual...
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    Vandals, probably Hasdingi in the Carpathian region, were associated with Gepids. According to Jordanes' Getica, the Hasdingi came into conflict with the...
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  • temporarily settled invading East Germanic, Asiatic or Caucasian tribes such as Gepids, Huns, Avars, Goths and Bulgars.[citation needed] The original inhabitants...
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    Kingdom of the Gepids 454–567 Ostrogothic Kingdom 469–553 Avar Khaganate 567–822 Hungarian invasions of Europe ~800–970 Hungarian conquest 862–895...
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  • Lombards applied to the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I for help against the Gepids, he sent an army under the command of Justinus and Justinianus, the sons...
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    Franks Ripuarian Franks Salian Franks Frisiavones Frisii Gambrivii Geats Gepids Goths Crimean Goths Greuthungi Gutones Ostrogoths Thervingi Thracian Goths...
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    Franks Ripuarian Franks Salian Franks Frisiavones Frisii Gambrivii Geats Gepids Goths Crimean Goths Greuthungi Gutones Ostrogoths Thervingi Thracian Goths...
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