Iaudas
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Iaudas or Iabdas was a Berber leader of the sixth century and king of the Kingdom of the Aurès who held the Byzantines in check for a long time in the Aurès, and played an important role in the Berber revolts following the Byzantine reconquest.
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- Iaudas
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- 250px
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- Painting of a Numidian horseman by Hocine Ziani
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- King of the Aurès
- Royalty.reign
- 516 – 539
- Royalty.death_date
- after 548
- Royalty.predecessor
- Masties
- Royalty.successor
- Kahina
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- 0501-00-00
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- 0500-00-00
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Iaudas or Iabdas was a Berber leader of the sixth century and king of the Kingdom of the Aurès who held the Byzantines in check for a long time in the Aurès, and played an important role in the Berber revolts following the Byzantine reconquest.
== Life and career == Iaudas was the son-in-law of Méphanias, another tribal chief, whom he assassinated, and the brother-in-law of Massônas, son of Méphanias. According to Corippus, he was the dux of the Aurasitana manus, i.e. the leader of the Auresian army, and according to Procopius, the leader of the Berbers of Aurasion. The latter also describes him as being “of all the Moors the handsomest and most valiant”.