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Gepids

Germanic tribe

16 dated entries naming Gepids, drawn from 16 separate years between 291 CE and 593 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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3rd century

  • 291The Tervingian Goths and Taifali fight the Vandals and Gepids.source

5th century

  • 451Spring – 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.source
  • 454Battle 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.source
  • 460Ardaric, king of the Gepids (approximate date)source
  • 489August – 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.source

6th century

  • 504King Theodoric the Great defeats the Gepids, and drives them out of their homeland (Pannonia).source
  • 536unknown date – Mundus, Gepid Byzantine general (killed in action)source
  • 539Emperor Justinian I becomes alarmed by renewed barbarian incursions across the Danube frontier from the Slavs, the Bulgars, the Gepids, and the Avars.source
  • 546Audoin receives subsidies from Justinian I, to encourage him to battle the Gepids in the Carpathian Mountains.source
  • 552Battle of Asfeld: The Lombards under King Audoin defeat the Gepids.source
  • 560Thurisind, king of the Gepids (approximate date)source
  • 565Justin II sends his son-in-law Baduarius (magister militum) with a Byzantine army, to support the Gepids in their war against the Lombards.source
  • 566A 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.source
  • 567The Lombard–Gepid War (567) ends with a Lombard-Avar victory, and the annihilation of the Gepids.source
  • 572June 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.source
  • 593Spring – 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.source

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