Mauretania

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Gaiseric ( – 25 January 477 AD), also known as Geiseric or Genseric (; reconstructed Vandalic: ) was king of the Vandals and Alans from 428 to 477 AD. He ruled over the Vandal kingdom and played a key role in the decline of the Western Roman Empire during the 5th century.

Mauretania (; ) is the Latin name for a region in the ancient Maghreb. It extended from central present-day Algeria to the Atlantic, encompassing northern present-day Morocco, and from the Mediterranean in the north to the Atlas Mountains. Its native inhabitants, of Berber ancestry, were known to the Romans as the Mauri and the Masaesyli.

Sufax, Syphax, Sufaqs or Sophax () was a hero in Berber and Greek mythology.

thumb|right|300px| Mauretanian cavalry under Lusius Quietus fighting in the Dacian Wars, from the [[Column of Trajan]] Mauri (from which derives the English term "Moors") was the Latin designation for the Berber population of Mauretania, located in the west side of North Africa on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, Mauretania Tingitana and Mauretania Caesariensis, in the North of present-day Morocco and north western Algeria.

Zerco or Zercon was a Moorish dwarf and the jester of the Hunnic king Attila.