Mauretania
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Mauretania is the Latin name for a region in the ancient Maghreb. Originally established in the north west of Morocco, it has encompassed at its height northern and central Morocco and western to cent
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Coin of Faustus Sulla, with the reverse depicting the Mauretanian king Bocchus I (left) offering the captured Jugurtha (right) to Faustus' father Lucius Sulla.
The tomb of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene II in Tipaza, Algeria
Ruins of the Roman town of Cuicul in Djemila
Mauri
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Mauri was the Latin designation for the Berber population of the Kingdom of Mauretania, located in the western Maghreb on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, which was later divided into Mauretania T
Mauretania
…northern and central Morocco and western to central Algeria. Its inhabitants, of Imazighen and Phoenician ancestry, were known to the Romans as the Mauri and the Masaesyli. The kings of Mauretania became Roman vassals in 25 BC. Around 44 AD, the region was annexed to Rome and divided into two provinces…
Mauretanian cavalry under Lusius Quietus fighting in the Dacian Wars, from the Column of Trajan
Eastern Hemisphere in 476 CE, showing the Mauri kingdoms after the fall of Rome