Thurisind

Thurisind (Latin: Turisindus, died ) was king of the Gepids, an East Germanic Gothic people, from c. 548 to 560. He was the penultimate Gepid king, and succeeded King Elemund by staging a coup d'état and forcing the king's son into exile. Thurisind's kingdom, known as Gepidia, was located in Central Europe and had its centre in Sirmium, a former Roman city on the Sava River (now the town of Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia).

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Royalty.name: Thurisind
Royalty.title: King of the Gepids
Royalty.reign: c. 548–560
Royalty.predecessor: Elemund
Royalty.successor: Cunimund
Royalty.issue: Cunimund Turismod
Royalty.death_date: c. 560

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date of birth: 0600-01-01
date of death: 0560-01-01

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Early sources
Rise to power
First war with the Lombards
Second Lombard–Gepid War and tensions with Justinian
Third Lombard–Gepid War
Peace
Notes
References

His reign was marked by multiple wars with the Lombards, a Germanic people who had arrived in the former Roman province of Pannonia under the leadership of their king, Audoin. Thurisind also had to face the hostility of the Byzantine Empire, which was resentful of the Gepid takeover of Sirmium and anxious to diminish Gepid power in the Pannonian Basin, a plain covering most of modern Hungary and partly including the bordering states. The Byzantines' plans to reduce the Gepids' power took effect when Audoin decisively defeated Thurisind in 551 or 552. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian forced a peace accord on both leaders so that equilibrium in the Pannonian Basin could be sustained.