{"slug": "gelimer", "label": "Gelimer", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelimer", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294777", "qid": "Q294777", "description": "King of the Vandals", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [480, 553], "span_label": ["480 CE", "553 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "vandals", "label": "Vandals", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "north-africa", "label": "North Africa", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alans", "label": "Alans", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "march", "label": "March", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "numidia", "label": "Numidia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "belisarius", "label": "Belisarius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vandal-kingdom", "label": "Vandal Kingdom", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arianism", "label": "Arianism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sardinia", "label": "Sardinia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cyrenaica", "label": "Cyrenaica", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 480, "year_label": "480 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Gelimer, king of the Vandals and Alans (d. 553)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739995#Births", "title": "480", "revid": 1364739995, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 523, "year_label": "523 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Leptis Magna (modern Libya) is sacked by Berber (Moor) raiders. Gelimer leads a successful expedition in North Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340792003#Africa", "title": "523", "revid": 1340792003, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 530, "year_label": "530 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Hilderic is deposed by his cousin Gelimer after a seven-year reign. Gelimer restores Arianism as the official religion of the Vandal Kingdom and puts Hilderic in prison along with other supporters.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364758665#Africa", "title": "530", "revid": 1364758665, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 533, "year_label": "533 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Vandalic War: Anti-Vandal revolt in Tripolitania and Sardinia; Gelimer, king of the Vandals, dispatches the bulk of the Vandal fleet (120 ships and 5,000 men) under his brother Tzazo to Sardinia. Byzantine forces from Cyrenaica occupy Leptis Magna and Tripolis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340793764#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "533", "revid": 1340793764, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 533, "year_label": "533 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Tzazo, brother of Gelimer (killed in battle)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340793764#Deaths", "title": "533", "revid": 1340793764, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 534, "year_label": "534 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March", "text": "March – King Gelimer surrenders to Belisarius, after spending a winter in the mountains of Numidia. He and large numbers of captured Vandals are transported to Constantinople. The Vandal Kingdom ends, and the African provinces return to the Byzantine Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353013996#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "534", "revid": 1353013996, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 553, "year_label": "553 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Gelimer, king of the Vandals and Alans (b. 480)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267072897#Deaths", "title": "553", "revid": 1267072897, "section": "Deaths"}}]}