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Jugurtha

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Also known as Iugurtha

Jugurtha or Jugurthen ( c. 160 – 104 BC) was a king of Numidia, the ancient kingdom of the Numidians in northwest Africa. When the Numidian king Micipsa, who had adopted Jugurtha, died in 118 BC, Micipsa's two sons, Hiempsal and Adherbal, along with Jugurtha, were in line for succession. Jugurtha arranged to have Hiempsal killed in 117 BC and, after a civil war, defeated and killed Adherbal in 112 BC.

Key facts

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Royalty.name
Jugurtha ⵢⵓⴳⵔⵜⵏ
Royalty.title
King of Numidia
Royalty.image
Coin of Jugurtha.png
Royalty.image_size
270px
Royalty.caption
Coin representing Jugurtha
Royalty.succession
King of Numidia
Royalty.reign
118–105 BC
Royalty.predecessor
MicipsaHiempsal IAdherbal
Royalty.successor
Gauda
Royalty.birth_date
c. 160 BC
Royalty.death_date
104 BC (aged about 56)
Royalty.death_place
Rome
Royalty.spouse
Daughter of Bocchus
Royalty.spouse type
Spouse
Royalty.house
Massylii
Royalty.house type
Tribe
Royalty.father
Mastanabal

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Place of birth
Cirta
Place of death
Rome
Child
Oxyntas
Sibling
Gauda
Occupation
sovereign
Image
Jugurtha captured.jpg
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Commons category
Jugurtha
date of death
0104-00-00
date of birth
0160-00-00
manner of death
capital punishment
relative
Micipsa
cause of death
starvation
name in native language
ⵢⵓⴳ·ⵔⵜⵏ
significant place
Numidia
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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • Background
  • Rise to power
  • War with Rome
  • Literary references
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Jugurtha or Jugurthen ( c. 160 – 104 BC) was a king of Numidia, the ancient kingdom of the Numidians in northwest Africa. When the Numidian king Micipsa, who had adopted Jugurtha, died in 118 BC, Micipsa's two sons, Hiempsal and Adherbal, along with Jugurtha, were in line for succession. Jugurtha arranged to have Hiempsal killed in 117 BC and, after a civil war, defeated and killed Adherbal in 112 BC.

The death of Adherbal, which was against the wishes of Rome, along with the growing popular anger in Rome at Jugurtha's success in bribing Roman senators and thus avoiding retribution, led to the Jugurthine War between Rome and Numidia. After a number of battles in Numidia between Roman and Numidian forces, Jugurtha was captured in 105 BC and paraded through Rome as part of Gaius Marius' Roman triumph. He was thrown into the Tullianum prison, where he was executed by strangulation in 104 BC.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jugurtha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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