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400 A.D.

Czech Republic

Movement of nations – invasions of nomadic tribes, arrival of western Slavs from the Danube and Vistula basins. Agrarian-pastoral culture, cremation burials. The empire of Samo – the first tribal union of the Slavs.

500 A.D.

Algeria

Vandal occupation and the Berber kingdom of the Djeddars.

500 A.D.

Sweden

Around this time the portcullis gate in the Eketorp ring-fort on Öland falls for the last time. As far as we know, this gate, built around AD 400, was the first of its kind outside the Roman Empire.

500 A.D.

Germany

During the rule of the Merovingian Dynasty (c. 500–751) Germanic tribes become subjects of the Merovingian Dynasty.

502 A.D.

Syria

A treaty is made between the Roman Empire and the Ghassanids, a Christian Arab tribe settled in southern Syria and Damascus, in order to defend the eastern frontiers against the Persians.

507 A.D.

Spain

Visigoths defeated by the Franks at the Battle of Vouillé; collapse of the Visigoth Kingdom of Tolosa and withdrawal to the Iberian Peninsula (Kingdom of Toledo).

511 A.D.

France

Death of Clovis, the Merovingian king who converted to Catholicism, won control of most of the Frankish kingdoms and took Aquitaine from the Visigoths.

521 A.D.

Sweden

Rumour has it that in this year King Hugleikr, possibly from what is Sweden today, was slain with all his men in Friesland by the Frankish, i.e. Merovingian, Prince Theodebert.

527 A.D.

Egypt

Byzantine Emperor Justinian orders the construction of St. Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Mount Moses in Central Sinai. It became the third pilgrimage site after Jerusalem and Rome.

527 A.D.

Italy

Justinian (527–65) becomes the Emperor of Byzantium and sets about reconquering the West, succeeding in destroying the Gothic Kingdom in Italy.

527 A.D.

Palestine

Justinian, the Byzantine Emperor, begins constructing many castles along the main caravan routes, and several churches in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Gaza and Nabatian Negev.

528 A.D.

Jordan

The Byzantine Emperor Justinianus (later Justinian) grants the ally of the Byzantines, al-Haritha ibn Jibla, the Arab-Christian ruler of the Ghassan tribe who settled in Syria and Jordan, the title ‘Baselues’ (king).

529 A.D.

Italy

The Corpus Iuris Civilis is compiled under Justinian, collecting and organising Roman law. The work remains influential for centuries, becoming the cornerstone of legal studies.

531 A.D.

Germany

The land of Thuringia is conquered by rulers of the Merovingian Dynasty with the help of the Saxons.

533 A.D.

Tunisia

Byzantine reconquest of Africa led by the Byzantine general Belisarius. End of the Vandal kingdom.
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