Can I join with the Vandalic Kingdom of Carthage?
Nation name/User name: Vandalic Kingdom of Carthage (Grandkhan)
Color:
Sienna
Starting location: North African part of
this, as well as Sardinia. Capital is at Carthage
Government and religion: Despotic Monarchy, Sunni Islam
History: The barbarian tribe known as the Vandals entered the Roman Empire in the early 400s, pillaging and looting their way into Spain, where they remained fighting the Romans for some time. However, in 429, under the powerful and enigmatic warlord Geiseric, they sailed across the Mediterranean into Africa. Geiseric conquered Numidia and the city of Carthage, which he named his capital, forcing the Romans to acknowledge his suzerainty over these areas. However, seeing the weakness of Rome, he then built up a powerful fleet and began raiding the mediterranean. The Vandals and their Alanic allies conquered Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, the Baleares, while raiding much of mainland Italy. They then tried their hand, like all self-respecting barbarian tribes, at sacking Rome, burning it in 455 AD.
However, after Geiseric's death in 477, his incompetent and aggressive son Huneric took power. His reign began the decline of the Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans, as region upon region was lost to the Romans, until only Sardinia and the North African territories remained under Vandalic control. They then lost even more land during the Islamic Conquest of Africa in 670, when all of Vandal Africa was lost to the Caliphate. The Vandal kings fled to Sardinia, which they defended against all comers for almost a 100 years, while using their impressive fleet to raid and pillage the Western Mediterranean. However, in 730 AD, the lure presented by the collapse of the Caliphate proved too much to endure, and the young King of the Vandals, Huneric IV, sailed back to Africa to lay siege to Carthage. It fell, and Huneric then conquered the rest of the old Vandalic Kingdom in Africa from the warlords in the Islamic province of Ifriqiya. To secure his power, Huneric and the Vandal court all converted to Sunni Islam, which may prove difficult when they return to Europe. This damaged his standing back in Africa however, and midway through his attempted conquest of Sicily from the Romans, he was forced to return home to put down a rebellion by the Aryan Christian minority in Africa.
Now restored to the Throne of the Vandals in Africa, Huneric now plans to restore the Kingdom of the Vandals in Europe as well, and pillage and conquer the Mediterranean like the Vandals of Old.
