Baquates

thumb|Monument commemorating the peace between the Romans and the Baquates under Ucmet (c.175) The Baquates were a people living in Mauretania Tingitana under the Roman Empire. They are known from Greek and Latin literary sources and inscriptions of the second through fourth centuries AD.

==Location== There is conflicting data about the location of the Baquates in the literary sources. The sources are divided over whether they lived in the far south or east of the province of Mauretania Tingitana. Ptolemy mentions the Baquates twice in his Geography (c. 150) under two different spellings. He has the Bakouatai living north of the Makanitai and the Ouakouatai living to the east of the Banioubai. The Antonine Itinerary (3rd century) places the Baquates and Makanitai in the south of Mauretania Tingitana. In one passage in his Cosmography (late 4th century), Julius Honorius places the Baquates south of the Makanitai beyond the Bou Regreg, agreeing with the Itinerary. In another passage, however, he has them living much further east and north, just beyond the Moulouya river, which divides their land from that of the Bavares.