The Battle of Tricamarum, 533 AD ⚔️ | Collapse of the Vandal Kingdom

The Battle of Tricamarum (533 AD) led to the collapse of the Vandal Kingdom. It pitted the Byzantine Empire, under its able general Belisarius, against the illustrious Vandal Kingdom, under King Gelimer.
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0:44 The Byzantine Empire
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Hughes, Ian. Belisarius: the last Roman general. Pen and Sword, 2009.
Merrills, Andrew, and Richard Miles. The Vandals. Vol. 18. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
Venning, Timothy, and Jonathan Harris. A chronology of the Byzantine Empire. Springer, 2006.
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[@planelsmederevo3705]

Agree, Byzantine empire has never existed under that name. It was Easrern roman empire (Don't know the English name but in serbian it was Romejsko carstvo, arabians called it Rum).

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[@dittmannrudolfrohr2149]

The theory that the Vandals traveled to North Africa via Spain and left behind a deserted country in their old homeland can only be refuted by looking at the work of Ammianus Marcellinus. Because the numerous vandals who stayed behind send a delegation to North Africa and ask the vandals there to give up their home farms, they urgently need the space for the numerous descendants. Into this overcrowded land are any "Slavs" supposed to have infiltrated? Completely untenable.

[@brokenbridge6316]

Belisarius was utterly brilliant from the start of this campaign straight till the end. He was particularly good with his hearts n minds strategy to win over the people the Vandals ruled.

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[@TheColombiano89]

They are not only Germanic but also Iranian. They included Iranian Alan tribes which crossed the Danube to escape the Hunnic invaders. They crossed the Danube and united with Germanic Vandal tribes. Also taking part in the invasion of North Africa. In France, cities like Alaincourt and Allainville carry their name, and Catalonia was originally called “Goth-Alania.” In Hungary, there is even a region inhabited by descendants of the Alans. Known as Jaśzberény (in Hungarian, Alans were called “Yas”), it still celebrates some traditions, such as the ceremonial blowing of a 9th-century horn. Even the common English first name, “Alan,” is said to originally come from those ancient warriors.

[@Reignor99]

The title kinda spoils the outcome "Collapse of the Vandal Kingdom" I prefer not to be spoiled Liked, subbed.

[@derrickpeterson3400]

Vanities of vanities, all is vanity.

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[@mantidos]

Nice video! They were Romans not Byzantines, Constantinople not byzantium. Should have said something about Justinian plague other than overextension.. Some more details would be nice, like that Roman expeditionary force stopped at Sicily before landing to Africa. It was there gathering intel founding out that Vandal army was at Sardinia..

[@kuwaitisnotadeployment1373]

I don't know if I'd say Rome allowed them to settle in north Africa. They sacked Rome and then decided to settle there and Rome was unable to do anything about it.

[@deeppurple883]

I had bigger battles of a Saturday out on the rip. 😂

[@thedwightguy]

533 A.D.? Wasn't 532 the year of NO SUMMER? Starvation, pestilence, disaster??

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[@rapierfool1]

Why did the Vandals wait for the Byzantines to set up?

[@julianmarsh1378]

One thing to keep in mind re: these 'barbarian hordes' is that they were not very numerous. Fighting men might number 10,000+...if Rome in the 5th century A.D. had two or three legions of the type found in Caesar's day, there wouldn't have been a fall of Rome.

[@dragooll2023]

Western rome was in a constant state of civil war and incompetent rulers. The armies of the germanic tribes were very numerous, outnumbering the frontier troops.

[@julianmarsh1378]

@@dragooll2023 Germanic tribes were, individually, not at all numerous...frontier forces were meant to serve as a trip wire, to give the mobile army time to assemble and take charge of the situation...it worked, until it didn't.

[@hatsuhioki9361]

''started to remove chatolics''? there was no shizm yet lol

[@thehaus6998]

Italian wars vid when ?

[@Lost7one]

germanic tribes lived in north-Africa before the Arabs lol

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Roma Invicta!

[@SandouAlex]

The Numbers are quite wrong buddy , at this time Belasarius had no more then 6000 troops due to the Justinia Pestis crisis . But good theory on the story .

[@HoH]

Do you have a source for that?

[@Nonamearisto]

And the world was a better place because of it.

[@ivanvidojevic2461]

I just cant imagine germanic peoples like vandals to have capital as chartage

[@Crankmyhog]

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[@josrevelie8278]

Moor = Amazigh/Berber (North Africans).

[@ramtin5152]

1:45 Not really He was defeated by the Sassanids twice, before the battle of Dara Belisarius fought the Sassanids 6 times and only won once Battle of Thannuris 528 (defeated) Battle of Mindouos 528 (defeated) Battle of Dara 530 (won) Battle of Callinicum 531 (defeated) Battle/Siege of Nisibis 541 (stalemate, Belisarius failed to conquer the city) Siege of Sisauranon 541 (Belisarius failed to conquer the fortress) The only time he was outnumbered was at Dara The Sassanids were able to defeat him while being outnumbered at Callinicum and had 5,000 men less They were outnumbered even more at Thannuris and had 10,000 soldiers less than him He was a great general but didn't gain any great success against the Sassanids His victory at Dara became useless after Callinicum and the Romans payed 11,000 lbs (5000 kg) gold to the Sassanids and the Iberian war ended by the Sassanids being victories just like the Anastasian war and their future war, the Lazic war

[@littleandre4957]

Arians who persecuted catholics (for being catholics)??.. This is the first time I hear about this....

[@littleandre4957]

Even the Ostrogoths who conquered Northern Italy and rome did not persecute catholics for being catholics....

[@brianmccarthy5557]

It's a commentary on the Vandals as a people that they totally disappeared leaving only their name as a label for those who loot and destroy for love of destruction. None of this indicates that Belisarius was a particularly great general. I think he's somewhat overrated because Procopious, who I consider a suspect source, fawns over him so much. Also, his anti-Catholic actions, including his outrageous treatment of the Pope, during the Gothic Wars, suited the modern political agendas and Christophobic attitudes of upper class English writers like Robert Graves. As for the later Byzantine control of North Africa and the Western Mediterranean Basin, they ablexto do it as long as they had a navy to control the Mediterranean and an army to protect Egypt and its northern approaches through Israel and Nabatea.

[@planelsmederevo3705]

Justinian is roman translation of serbian name Upravda (a man of justice). He was born as serbian. His parents were Istok and Bilenica) His general Belisarius name is also roman translation of serbian Velizar. 😀🇷🇸 Nice video anyway. Cheers.

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[@Aceo_0]

how is it that every European tripe is called German?

[@Spiderfisch]

They were the only ones left after Rome conquered everything

[@milanknezevic3734]

Ostrogots are Serbians or Ilirians....

[@rockyrakovica603]

Vandals were not Germanic you've opened a video with a wrong or at least questionable information.

[@HoH]

What were they according to you?

[@rockyrakovica603]

@@HoH Probably (because of course we can't be sure) they were Slavs, or proto Slavs if you like it better like Lugi, Quadi and Vendi.

[@adriennekulcsar7734]

@@rockyrakovica603 Not Slavs........the Slavs at this time ware still Neolithic

[@rockyrakovica603]

@@adriennekulcsar7734 hahahhahaha please don't write this stuff unless you are sarcastic.

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Another KG clone

[@stormdancer25]

Terrible accent, voice, tone - non English speaker

[@tonit4233]

Are you drunk? The accent is barely noticeable at worst.

[@HoH]

Thanks Toni.

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Have to agree with Storm here, sorry weird voiced history man.

[@aka99]

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