The 

Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland. They
established Vandal kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean islands, and North Africa in
the fifth century.[2]
The Vandals migrated to the area between the lower Oder and Vistula rivers in the second century
BC and settled in Silesia from around 120 BC.[3][4][5] They are associated with the Przeworsk
culture and were possibly the same people as the Lugii. Expanding into Dacia during
the Marcomannic Wars and to Pannonia during the Crisis of the Third Century, the Vandals were
confined to Pannonia by the Goths around 330 AD, where they received permission to settle
from Constantine the Great. Around 400, raids by the Huns from the east forced many Germanic
tribes to migrate west into the territory of the Roman Empire and, fearing that they might be targeted
next, the Vandals were also pushed westwards, crossing the Rhine into Gaul along with other tribes
in 406.[6] In 409, the Vandals crossed the Pyrenees into the Iberian Peninsula, where
the Hasdingi and the Silingi settled in Gallaecia (northwest Iberia) and Baetica (south-central Iberia).
On the orders of the Romans, the Visigoths invaded Iberia in 418. They almost wiped out
the Alans and Silingi Vandals who voluntarily subjected themselves to the rule of Hasdingian
leader Gunderic. Gunderic was then pushed from Gallaecia to Baetica by a Roman-Suebi coalition
in 419. In 429, under king Genseric (reigned 428–477), the Vandals entered North Africa. By 439
they established a kingdom which included the Roman province of Africa as well
as Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearic Islands. They fended off several Roman attempts
to recapture the African province, and sacked the city of Rome in 455. Their kingdom collapsed in
the Vandalic War of 533–34, in which Emperor Justinian I's forces reconquered the province for
the Eastern Roman Empire.
As the Vandals plundered Rome for fourteen days,[7] Renaissance and early-modern writers
characterized the Vandals as prototypical barbarians. This led to the use of the term "vandalism" to
describe any pointless destruction, particularly the "barbarian" defacing of artwork. However, some
modern historians have emphasised the role of Vandals as continuators of aspects of Roman
culture, in the transitional period from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages.[8]