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Gepids
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Coin of the Gepids . Sirmium mint. In the name of Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I thumb|300px|Coin of the Gepids. Sirmium mint. Struck in the name of [[Justin I, CE. Obv: D N IVSTINVS P LV (first N retrograde), pearl-diademed and cuirassed bust right. Rev: VINVICTL ROMLNI, large "Theodericus" monogram across fields, cross above]] The Gepids (; ) were an East Germanic tribe who lived in the area of modern Romania, Hungary, and Serbia, roughly between the Tisza, Sava, and Carpathian Mountains. They were said to share the religion and language of the Goths and Vandals.
The Gepids were an East Germanic tribe that inhabited the region of modern-day Romania, Hungary, and Serbia during the early medieval period, sharing language and religious practices with other Germanic groups like the Goths and Vandals. They were significant enough to mint coins in their territory, including at Sirmium, indicating they maintained organized political and economic systems during their time in southeastern Europe.
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- Country.conventional_long_name
- Kingdom of the Gepids
- Country.common_name
- Kingdom of the Gepids
- Country.government_type
- Monarchy
- Country.common_languages
- East Germanic (possibly Gothic) among elite.
- Country.event_start
- Ardaric established an independent Gepid kingdom following the Hunnic defeat at the Battle of Nedao
- Country.year_start
- 454
- Country.event_end
- The kingdom is destroyed by the Lombards and Avars
- Country.year_end
- 567
- Country.p1
- HunsHunnic Empire
- Country.p2
- Ostrogothic Kingdom
- Country.border_p1
- no
- Country.s1
- Pannonian Avars
- Country.s2
- Kingdom of the Lombards
- Country.image_map
- Europe and the Near East at 476 AD.png
- Country.capital
- Sirmium
- Country.image_map_caption
- Gepid kingdom in Europe following the end of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD
- Country.religion
- Germanic paganism, Arian Christianity (among elite)
- Country.leader1
- Ardaric
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18 sectionsContents
- Name
- Language
- History
- Legendary
- Before the arrival of the Huns
- Within the Hunnic Empire
- Kingdom of the Gepids
- List of Gepid kings
- Fall and last records
- Archaeological sites
- Genetic research
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|300px|Coin of the Gepids . Sirmium mint. In the name of Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I thumb|300px|Coin of the Gepids. Sirmium mint. Struck in the name of [[Justin I, CE. Obv: D N IVSTINVS P LV (first N retrograde), pearl-diademed and cuirassed bust right. Rev: VINVICTL ROMLNI, large "Theodericus" monogram across fields, cross above]] The Gepids (; ) were an East Germanic tribe who lived in the area of modern Romania, Hungary, and Serbia, roughly between the Tisza, Sava, and Carpathian Mountains. They were said to share the religion and language of the Goths and Vandals.
They are first mentioned by Roman sources in the third century. In the fourth century, they were among the peoples incorporated into the Hunnic Empire, within which they formed an important part. After the death of Attila, the Gepids under their leader Ardaric, led an alliance of other peoples who had been in the empire, and defeated the sons of Attila and their remaining allies at the Battle of Nedao in 454. The Gepids and their allies subsequently founded kingdoms on the Middle Danube, bordering on the Roman Empire. The Gepid Kingdom was one of the most important and long-lasting of these, centered on Sirmium, and sometimes referred to as Gepidia. It covered a large part of the former Roman province of Dacia, north of the Danube, and compared to other Middle Danubian kingdoms it remained relatively uninvolved with Rome.