Thurisind (Latin: Turisindus died c. 560) was king of the Gepids an East Germanic Gothic people from c. 548 to 560. He was the penultimate Gepid king and succeeded King Elemund by staging a coup d’état and forcing the king’s son into exile. Thurisind’s kingdom known as Gepidia was located in Central Europe and had its centre in Sirmium a former Roman city on the Sava River (now the town of Sremska Mitrovica Serbia).
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