Jeg, opphavsrettensholderen til dette verket, frigir dette verket til allmennheten. Dette gjelder på verdensbasis. I enkelte land kan dette være juridisk umulig. I så fall: Jeg gir hvem som helst retten til å bruke dette verket for ethvert formål, uten noen vilkår, med mindre slike vilkår kreves ved lov.

Main references – historical maps of Europe and north Africa (526 AD):

• http://www.studenthandouts.com/photo_gallery/Maps/Map_Europe_526_CE_Germanic_Migrations.jpg archive copy at the Wayback Machine
• http://www.emersonkent.com/images/germanic_roman_526.jpg
• http://rbedrosian.com/Maps/muhamm6b.jpg
• http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/images/byz-map-526.jpg

Secondary references about name of the Kingdom:

• Herwig Wolfram, The Roman Empire and its Germanic peoples, University of California Press, 1997, page 170
• Bernard S. Bachrach, A history of the Alans in the West: from their first appearance in the sources of classical antiquity through the early Middle Ages, Minnesota Press, 1973, page 58
• Stephen Williams, Gerard Friell, John Gerard Paul Friell, The Rome that did not fall: the survival of the East in the fifth century, Routledge, 1999, page 69

Secondary references about locations of some important cities:

• The Times History of Europe, Times Books, London, 2002.
• Dragan Brujić, Vodič kroz svet Vizantije, Beograd, 2004.