{"slug": "gepids", "label": "Gepids", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gepids", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201706", "qid": "Q201706", "description": "Germanic tribe", "entries": 16, "years": 16, "span": [291, 593], "span_label": ["291 CE", "593 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 11}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "lombards", "label": "Lombards", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "pannonia", "label": "Pannonia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "attila", "label": "Attila", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "heruli", "label": "Heruli", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pannonian-avars", "label": "Pannonian Avars", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-army", "label": "Byzantine army", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "theodoric-the-great", "label": "Theodoric the Great", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "wallachia", "label": "Wallachia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "germany", "label": "Germany", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 291, "year_label": "291 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Tervingian Goths and Taifali fight the Vandals and Gepids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1270957689#Northern_Europe", "title": "291", "revid": 1270957689, "section": "Events › By place › Northern Europe"}}, {"year": 451, "year_label": "451 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Attila gathers his vassals—Bastarnae, Gepids, Heruls, Ostrogoths, Rugians, Scirians and Thuringians (among others), and smashes through Germany, causing widespread panic and destruction. He arrives in Belgica with an army (50,000 men) and crosses the Rhine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361438720#Europe", "title": "451", "revid": 1361438720, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 454, "year_label": "454 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Nedao: Allied forces of subjected peoples (Gepids, Heruli, Ostrogoths, Rugii, Sciri and Suebi), under the leadership of King Ardaric, defeat the Huns under Ellac, eldest son of Attila the Hun, in Pannonia. Ellac is killed during the battle and succeeded by his brother Dengizich.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747737#Europe", "title": "454", "revid": 1364747737, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 460, "year_label": "460 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ardaric, king of the Gepids (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598361#Deaths", "title": "460", "revid": 1360598361, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 489, "year_label": "489 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August", "text": "August – Battle of Sirmium in Pannonia: The Ostrogoths under Theodoric the Great, moving to invade Northern Italy at the behest of Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno, defeat the Gepids attempting to stop their advance.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747647#Europe", "title": "489", "revid": 1364747647, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 504, "year_label": "504 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Theodoric the Great defeats the Gepids, and drives them out of their homeland (Pannonia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747389#Europe", "title": "504", "revid": 1364747389, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 536, "year_label": "536 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "unknown date – Mundus, Gepid Byzantine general (killed in action)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362906459#Deaths", "title": "536", "revid": 1362906459, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 539, "year_label": "539 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Justinian I becomes alarmed by renewed barbarian incursions across the Danube frontier from the Slavs, the Bulgars, the Gepids, and the Avars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754969#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "539", "revid": 1364754969, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 546, "year_label": "546 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Audoin receives subsidies from Justinian I, to encourage him to battle the Gepids in the Carpathian Mountains.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747564#Europe", "title": "546", "revid": 1364747564, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 552, "year_label": "552 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Asfeld: The Lombards under King Audoin defeat the Gepids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340800166#Europe", "title": "552", "revid": 1340800166, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 560, "year_label": "560 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Thurisind, king of the Gepids (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354969984#Deaths", "title": "560", "revid": 1354969984, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 565, "year_label": "565 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Justin II sends his son-in-law Baduarius (magister militum) with a Byzantine army, to support the Gepids in their war against the Lombards.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749296#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "565", "revid": 1364749296, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 566, "year_label": "566 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A Byzantine army, under command of 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 to hand back the fortress city of Sirmium (modern Serbia), as he had promised.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749385#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "566", "revid": 1364749385, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 567, "year_label": "567 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Lombard–Gepid War (567) ends with a Lombard-Avar victory, and the annihilation of the Gepids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340800789#Europe", "title": "567", "revid": 1340800789, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 572, "year_label": "572 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 28", "text": "June 28 – Alboin, king of the Lombards, is murdered at Verona in his palace, at the instigation of his wife Rosamund (daughter of the Gepid king Cunimund), and her henchman, Helmechis (the king's squire); both flee to seek Byzantine protection in Ravenna. Alboin is succeeded as king by Cleph, who is not related by blood.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340801019#Europe", "title": "572", "revid": 1340801019, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 593, "year_label": "593 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Priscus, commander-in-chief in Thrace, defeats the Slavic tribes and Gepids on Byzantine territory south of the Danube. He crosses the river to fight in the uncharted swamps and forests of modern-day Wallachia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755561#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "593", "revid": 1364755561, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}