Editing Thrasamund (section)

===Moors on the periphery===
At the time of his wedding, Thrasamund and his Vandals were already at war with several Moorish kingdoms.{{sfn|Merrills|Miles|2010|p=133}} Throughout the course of his rule, Thrasamund faced the ongoing threat posed by the Moors along the periphery of his territories, who became increasingly destructive and formidable across north Africa.{{sfn|Randers-Pehrson|1993|p=167}}{{efn|According to historian Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson, more so than the Vandals, the Moors were the greater threat to Byzantium in North Africa.{{sfn|Randers-Pehrson|1993|p=170}} }} 

In the final year of Thrasamund's reign, the important port city of [[Leptis Magna]] was sacked by a mixed army of Moors and Berbers. Procopius [[Tripolitania expedition (523)|describes a battle between]] the [[Berbers]] of [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] under [[Cabaon]] and the Vandals, in which the Berbers used unusual tactics to defeat the Vandal cavalry.{{sfn|Prokopios|2014|pp=162–164 [3.8.15–29]}} Historian Guy Halsall described the event as a "severe defeat" for the Vandals at Moorish hands in much the way it was for the next Vandal king, which eventually brought intervention to North Africa from Emperor [[Justinian]].{{sfn|Halsall|2007|pp=295–296}}