567
__NOTOC__ Year 567 (Roman numerals, DLXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 567 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Europe * The Lombard–Gepid War (567) ends with a Lombards, Lombard-Pannonian Avars, Avar victory, and the annihilation of the Gepids. * Sigebert I, king of Austrasia, marries Brunhilda of Austrasia, Brunhilda, and his half brother Chilperic I marries Galswintha, both daughters of the Visigothic king Athanagild. * King Charibert I dies without an heir; his realm (region Neustria and Aquitaine) is divided between his brothers Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I.''Charibert I'', Edward James, ''The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity'', ed. Oliver Nicholson, (Oxford University Press, 2018), 317. * Liuva I succeeds his predecessor Athanagild afte ...
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Gepids
The Gepids, ( la, Gepidae, Gipedae, grc, Γήπαιδες) 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 provinc ...
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