Vandal Facts for Kids

Vandal can mean several things:

The Vandals were a German tribe during the migration period (a time when groups of people moved around) in Europe.
Vandal is also what a person that does vandalism is called

Images for kids

Vandalic goldfoil jewellery from the 3rd or 4th century
Neck ring with plug clasp from the Vandalic Treasure of Osztrópataka displayed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.
Germanic and Proto-Slavic tribes of Central Europe around 3rd century BC.
The Roman empire under Hadrian (ruled 117–38), showing the location of the Vandilii East Germanic tribes, then inhabiting the upper Vistula region (Poland).
Reconstruction of an Iron Age warrior's garments representing a Vandalic man, with his hair in a "Suebian knot" (160 AD), Archaeological Museum of Kraków, Poland.
Migrations of the Vandals from Scandinavia through Dacia, Gaul, Iberia, and into North Africa. Grey: Roman Empire.
The Vandal Kingdom at its greatest extent in the 470s
The Sack of Rome, Karl Briullov, 1833–1836
Barbarian kingdoms and tribes after the end of the Western Roman Empire in 476
A denarius of the reign of Hilderic. Legends: D[OMINUS] N[OSTRIS] HILDIRIX REX / KART[A]G[INE] FELIX.
Belisarius may be this bearded figure on the right of Emperor Justinian I in the mosaic in the Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, which celebrates the reconquest of Italy by the Byzantine army under the skillful leadership of Belisarius
Vandal cavalryman, c. AD 500, from a mosaic pavement at Bordj Djedid near Carthage
The Vandals' traditional reputation: a coloured steel engraving of the Sack of Rome (455) by Heinrich Leutemann (1824–1904), c. 1860–80