Query: The Vandals migrated around Europe.

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Scandinavia <=SEP=> Scandinavia -LSB- ˌskændɪˈneɪviə -RSB- is a historical and cultural region in Northern Europe characterized by a common ethnocultural North Germanic heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages .   The term Scandinavia always includes the three kingdoms of Denmark , Norway , and Sweden . The remote Norwegian islands of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are usually not seen as a part of Scandinavia , nor is Greenland , an overseas territory of Denmark . However , the Faroe Islands , also a Danish overseas territory , are sometimes included , as sometimes are Iceland , Finland , and the Finnish autonomous region of the Åland Islands , because of their historical association with the Scandinavian countries and the Scandinavian peoples and languages . This looser definition almost equates to that of the Nordic countries . In Nordic languages , only Denmark , Norway and Sweden are commonly included in the definition of Scandinavia .   In English usage , Scandinavia sometimes refers to the geographical area , also known as the Scandinavian Peninsula . The name Scandinavia originally referred vaguely to the formerly Danish , now Swedish , region Scania . The terms Scandinavia and Scandinavian entered usage in the late 18th century as terms for Denmark , Norway and Sweden , their Germanic majority peoples and associated language and culture , the term being introduced by the early linguistic and cultural Scandinavist movement .   The majority of the population of Scandinavia are descended from several ( North ) Germanic tribes who originally inhabited the southern part of Scandinavia and spoke a Germanic language that evolved into Old Norse . Icelanders and the Faroese are to a significant extent descended from the Norse , and are therefore often seen as Scandinavian . Finland is mainly populated by Finns , with a minority of approximately 5 % of Swedish speakers . A small minority of Sami people live in the extreme north of Scandinavia .   The Danish , Norwegian and Swedish languages form a dialect continuum and are known as the Scandinavian languages -- all of which are considered mutually intelligible with one another . Faroese and Icelandic , sometimes referred to as insular Scandinavian languages , are intelligible in continental Scandinavian languages only to a limited extent . Finnish and Meänkieli are closely related to each other and more distantly to the Sami languages , but are entirely unrelated to the Scandinavian languages . Apart from these , German , Yiddish and Romani are recognized minority languages in Scandinavia .   The southern and by far most populous regions of Scandinavia have a temperate climate . Scandinavia extends north of the Arctic Circle , but has relatively mild weather for its latitude due to the Gulf Stream . Much of the Scandinavian mountains have an alpine tundra climate . There are many lakes and moraines , legacies of the last glacial period , which ended about ten millennia ago .

Oder <=SEP=> The Oder ( -LSB- ˈoːdɐ -RSB- ; Czech , Lower Sorbian and Odra , Upper Sorbian : Wódra ) is a river in Central Europe . It rises in the Czech Republic and flows ( generally north - and northwest-ward ) through western Poland , later forming 187 km of the border between Poland and Germany , part of the Oder -- Neisse line . The river ultimately flows into the Szczecin Lagoon north of Szczecin and then into three branches ( the Dziwna , Świna and Peene ) that empty into the Gulf of Pomerania of the Baltic Sea .

Silesia <=SEP=> Silesia ( s -LSB- ʃleːziən -RSB- ; Silesian German : Schläsing ; Slezsko Silesian : Ślůnsk -LSB- -LSB- ɕlonsk -RSB- -RSB- ; Silesia ) is a region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland , with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany . Its area is about 40,000 km2 , and its population about 8,000,000 . Silesia is located along the Oder River . It consists of Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia .   The region is rich in mineral and natural resources , and includes several important industrial areas . Silesia 's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław . The biggest metropolitan area is the Upper Silesian metropolitan area , the centre of which is Katowice . Parts of the Czech city of Ostrava fall within the borders of Silesia .   Silesia 's borders and national affiliation have changed over time , both when it was a hereditary possession of noble houses and after the rise of modern nation-states . The first known states to hold power there were probably those of Greater Moravia at the end of the 9th century and Bohemia early in the 10th century . In the 10th century , Silesia was incorporated into the early Polish state , and after its division in the 12th century became a Piast duchy . In the 14th century , it became a constituent part of the Bohemian Crown Lands under the Holy Roman Empire , which passed to the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy in 1526 .   Most of Silesia was conquered by Prussia in 1742 , later becoming part of the German Empire and subsequent German republic up to 1945 . The varied history with changing aristocratic possessions resulted in an abundance of castles in Silesia , especially in the Jelenia Góra valley . After World War I , the easternmost part of this region , i.e. an eastern strip of Upper Silesia , was awarded to Poland by the Entente Powers after insurrections by Poles and the Upper Silesian plebiscite . The remaining former Austrian parts of Silesia were partitioned to Czechoslovakia , and are today part of the Czech Republic . In 1945 , after World War II , the bulk of Silesia was transferred , on demands of the Polish delegation , to Polish jurisdiction by the Potsdam Agreement of the victorious Allied Powers and became part of Poland . The small Lusatian strip west of the Oder-Neisse line , which had belonged to Silesia since 1815 , remained in Germany . Its centres are Görlitz and Bautzen .   Most inhabitants of Silesia today speak the national languages of their respective countries ( Polish and Czech , both of which are Western Slavic languages , with some , albeit limited , mutual intelligibility ) . The population of Upper Silesia is native ( with some immigrants from Poland who came in the 19th to 20th centuries ) , while Lower Silesia was settled by a German-speaking population before 1945 . An ongoing debate exists whether Silesian speech should be considered a dialect of Polish or a separate language . Also , a Lower Silesian German dialect is used , although today it is almost extinct . It is used by expellees within Germany , as well as Germans who were left behind .

Vandals <=SEP=> The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe , or group of tribes , who were first heard of in southern Poland , but later moved around Europe establishing kingdoms in Spain and later North Africa in the 5th century .   The Vandals are believed to have migrated from southern Scandinavia to the area between the lower Oder and Vistula rivers during the 2nd century BC and to have settled in Silesia from around 120 BC . 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 by Constantine the Great . Around 400 , raids by the Huns forced many of the Germanic tribes like the Goths to migrate to the Roman Empire , and fearing that they might be targeted next , the Vandals were pushed westwards crossing the Rhine into Gaul along with other tribes in 406 . In 409 , the Vandals crossed the Pyrenees into the Iberian Peninsula , where their main groups , the Hasdingi and the Silingi , settled in Gallaecia ( northwest ) and Baetica ( south central ) respectively .   After the Visigoths invaded Iberia , the Iranian Alans and Silingi Vandals voluntarily subjected to the rule of Hasdingian leader Gunderic , who was pushed from Gallaecia to Baetica by a Roman-Suebi coalition in 419 . In 429 , under king Genseric , 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 -- 4 , in which Justinian I managed to reconquer the province for the Eastern Roman Empire .   Renaissance and Early Modern writers characterized the Vandals as barbarians , `` sacking and looting '' Rome . This led to the use of the term `` vandalism '' to describe any senseless destruction , particularly the `` barbarian '' defacing of artwork . However , modern historians tend to regard the Vandals during the transitional period from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages as perpetuators , not destroyers , of Roman culture .

Vistula <=SEP=> The Vistula ( -LSB- ˈvɪstjʊlə -RSB- Wisła -LSB- ˈvʲiswa -RSB- , Weichsel -LSB- ˈvaɪksl̩ -RSB- , ווייסל -LSB- vajsl̩ -RSB- ) is the longest and largest river in Poland , at 1047 km in length . The drainage basin area of the Vistula is 194,424 km2 , of which 168,699 km2 lies within Poland ( splitting the country in half ) . The remainder is in Belarus , Ukraine and Slovakia .   The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in the south of Poland , 1220 m above sea level in the Silesian Beskids ( western part of Carpathian Mountains ) , where it begins with the White Little Vistula ( Biała Wisełka ) and the Black Little Vistula ( Czarna Wisełka ) . It then continues to flow over the vast Polish plains , passing several large Polish cities along its way , including Kraków , Sandomierz , Warsaw , Płock , Włocławek , Toruń , Bydgoszcz , Świecie , Grudziądz , Tczew and Gdańsk . It empties into the Vistula Lagoon ( Zalew Wiślany ) or directly into the Gdańsk Bay of the Baltic Sea with a delta and several branches ( Leniwka , Przekop , Śmiała Wisła , Martwa Wisła , Nogat and Szkarpawa ) .

East Germanic tribes <=SEP=> The Germanic tribes referred to as East Germanic constitute a wave of migrants who may have moved from Scandinavia into the area between the Oder and Vistula rivers between the years 600 and 300 BC . Later they went to the south . Unlike the Northern and Western tribes , they did not successfully preserve their ethnicity and were primarily assimilated into West Germanic tribes and Romans .   According to some theories , the east Germanic tribes , related to the North Germanic tribes , had migrated from Scandinavia into the region east of the Elbe River ( Vandals , Burgundians , Goths , Rugians and others ) .