Mauretania
Sign in to saveMauretania (; ) 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.
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Mauretania
- Country.era
- Classical antiquity
- Country.status
- Tribal Berber kingdoms (3rd century BC – 40 AD)Provinces of the Roman Empire (44 AD – 7th century AD)Independent kingdoms (431 AD – 8th century)
- Country.life_span
- 3rd century BC – 7th century AD
- Country.year_start
- 200 BC
- Country.year_end
- 44 AD
- Country.event1
- client state of the Roman Empire
- Country.date_event1
- 25 BC
- Country.event2
- Division into Roman provinces
- Country.date_event2
- 44 AD
- Country.image_map
- Mauretania_et_Numidia.jpg
- Country.image_map_caption
- Mauretania
- Country.capital
- VolubilisIol / Caesarea
- Country.common_languages
- Berbers, Latin
- Country.religion
- Religion in ancient Rome, local beliefs, Christianity
- Country.title_leader
- King
- Country.leader1
- Bocchus I
- Country.year_leader1
- 110–80 BC
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Moorish kingdom
- Monarchs
- Roman province(s)
- Late Antiquity
- Mauro-Roman Kingdom
- Vandal kingdom
- Praetorian prefecture of Africa
- Exarchate of Africa
- Religion
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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.
In 25 BC, the kings of Mauretania became Roman vassals until about 44 AD, when the area was annexed to Rome and divided into two provinces: Mauretania Tingitana and Mauretania Caesariensis. Christianity spread there from the 3rd century onwards. After the Muslim Arabs subdued the region in the 7th century, Islam became the dominant religion.