Mauretania is a part of the historical Ancient Libyan land in North Africa. It corresponds to present day Morocco and a part of western Algeria. Mauretania in antiquity was the western neighbour of the ancient kingdom of Numidia.
In antiquity, Mauretania was originally an independent Amazigh powerful kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa (named after the Mauri people, after whom the Amazighs were named), corresponding to northern Mor...
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Mauretania is a part of the historical Ancient Libyan land in North Africa. It corresponds to present day Morocco and a part of western Algeria. Mauretania in antiquity was the western neighbour of the ancient kingdom of Numidia.
In antiquity, Mauretania was originally an independent Amazigh powerful kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa (named after the Mauri people, after whom the Amazighs were named), corresponding to northern Morocco. Some of its earliest recorded history relates to Phoenician and Carthaginian settlements such as Lixus, Walili, Mogador and Chellah. The kingdom of Mauretania was not situated on the Atlantic coast south of Western Sahara, where modern Mauritania lies.
Caligula killed the king of Mauretania Ptolemy in 40. Claudius annexed Mauretania directly as a Roman province in 44, under an imperial (not senatorial) governor.
Not depriving the Mauri of their line of kings would have contributed to preserving loyalty and order, it appears: "The Mauri,...
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