Geberic was a king

Monarch

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 of the Goths

Goths

The Goths were an East Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin whose two branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Medieval Europe....

 of the fourth century AD. He succeeded Ariaric and conquered Dacia

Dacia

In ancient geography, especially in Roman sources, Dacia was the land inhabited by the Dacians or Getae as they were known by the Greeks—the branch of the Thracians north of the Haemus range...

, which had become the territory of the Vandals

Vandals

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century. The Vandals under king Genseric entered Africa in 429 and by 439 established a kingdom which included the Roman Africa province, besides the islands of Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia and the Balearics....

, around 340 AD. The Vandals had been led by their king Visimar

Visimar

Wisimar or Visimar was a Vandal ruler of the Hasdingi tribe during the 4th century in Europe. Although this historical figure is overwhelmingly shadowed by a lack of historical data, he is noted as one of the early monarchs of the Vandals. His territorial extent occupied regions of today's...

. Their defeat led to the Vandals seeking and obtaining permission to settle in Pannonia

Pannonia

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Gerberic spent the rest of his life fighting and died around 350 AD. Geberic was succeeded by Hermanaric (Eormenric, Iormunrekr).