Vandals were an East Germanic Tribe. In 429, they entered North
Africa under the leadership of King Genseric. In 439, the king had
broken a peace treaty with the Romans by taking Carthage as his
capital. In 445, they took on the City of Rome and pillaged it
thoroughly. During the Vandalic War, 533-534, the Vandal kingdom
collapsed when the Byzantine Emperor Justinian managed to reconquer
Carthage. The Vandals are the root of the word Vandalism. The
Vandals is also the name of an Orange County hard core punk
band.