[gothic-l] What happened with the Vandalic Kingdom?

[Bertil Häggman]

Dirk,

Could you please describe the stage of "complete
disrepair" and your sources.

Would you care to elaborate a comparison between
the Vandal fleet and the Roman-Punic fleets (number
of ships etc).?

When the Vandal administration decided to keep up
the quality of building, construction etc. There were
certainly both commercial and military harbours
in the kingdom. Reliance was not only on the harbours
in Carthage. The fact that at the Byzantine
conquest the chains were lifte at one of the
harbours shows that at least one was still in use.

The real decline of urban North Africa came after the
Byzantine reconquest.

Germanically

Bertil







> Well, the information is correct. The Vandal period in Tunesia, is in
> general a period of neglect of public Roman buildings. The text
> provided under the following link describes the decline quite nicely:

> > Ancient Carthage had two harbours, a rectangular
> > commercial harbour and a circular militar harbour.
> > It seems the circular harbour was somewhat neglected
> > during Vandal rule.

> Yes, but that was probably still nothing compared to the Punic and
> Roman fleets that these harbours were once build for.
> There was no substantial building activity under the Vandals in
> Tunesia at all, especially if compared to the Punic and Roman periods
> before the Vandals and the Byznatine period following the Vandals. In
> fact if you visit Carthage today, you would be hard pressed to find
> anything  that was build in the Vandal period.



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