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AD 439Placed in a yearEast AsiaPolitics and institutions
The Wei shu basic annals record that on the bingxu day of the ninth lunar month of Taiyan 5 (AD 439) Wannian (萬年), nephew of Juqu Muqian (沮渠牧犍), came over with his followers, and that on the same day Muqian with five thousand civil and military attendants presented himself bound at the gate of the Wei army; the emperor untied him and treated him with the courtesy due to a vassal ruler, and the Wei took over the more than two hundred thousand households and persons in the city and treasures beyond counting.
Limits: An official history compiled 551-554 by Wei Shou under the Northern Qi from Northern Wei records; the English is an AI working translation. The figures are as reported. The city is not named in this span; the preceding entry records the emperor arriving at Guzang (姑臧) and besieging it in the eighth month.
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AD 439Placed in a yearEast AsiaSocial life
The Wei shu basic annals record that on the xinyou day of the tenth lunar month of Taiyan 5 (AD 439) the imperial carriage returned east and more than thirty thousand households of the people of Liangzhou (涼州) were moved to the capital.
Limits: An official history compiled 551-554 by Wei Shou under the Northern Qi from Northern Wei records; the English is an AI working translation. The household figure is as reported.
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AD 439Placed in a yearNorthern AfricaPolitics and institutions
The Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes records under the consulship of Theodosius (for the seventeenth time) and Festus (AD 439) that Ginsiricus, king of the Vandals, with his followers occupied the cities of Africa and the metropolis Carthage on the tenth day before the Kalends of November (23 October).
Limits: A Latin chronicle written at Constantinople c. 518-534, used through Mommsen's 1894 edition as OCR text (page images not checked); the English is an AI working translation. The name is given as the OCR shows it (the apparatus reports 'giusiricbus' in TUR and 'gensericus' in S; the king is usually called Gaiseric), S reads 'Africanam provinciam' for 'Africae civitates', and the parallel Greek column enters the Vandal king's entry into Carthage under the same consuls in the month Hyperberetaios (October), consistent with this year. The day (23 October) is Marcellinus's own: Hydatius's chronicle in the same volume (c. 115, beside Mommsen's margin 439) dates Gaiseric's seizure of Carthage to XIIII kal. Novembris (19 October).
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