gepids
appearance:
destruction:
ascendancy: east germans[1]
before about 200 or so, the gepids lived in northern poland and their culture can be identified with that of the wielbark. the gepids were under gothic domination until the invasion of the huns who then became the new gepid overlords; they were destroyed by avars.
descendancy: [1]
[1]: the role of migration in the history of the eurasian steppe, andrew bell-fialkoff, 2000
[2]: the germanic invasions, lucien musset, 1965
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