mauretania (antiquity)
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Mauretania
Mauretania (Rome)
Establishment
January 299 BC: The first detailed written information about Mauritania dates from the time of the Jugurthine War. In the 2nd century B.C. A Berber kingdom existed there, whose ruler Bocchus was first allied with the Numidians against the Romans.
Chronology
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Was an armed conflict between the Roman Republic and king Jugurtha of Numidia, a kingdom on the coast of modern Algeria.
January 107 BC: At this point Jugurtha retired to the court of his father-in-law, king Bocchus I of Mauretania, who though previously professing friendship for the Romans, now received Jugurtha hospitably, and, without positively declaring war (on Rome), advanced with his troops into Numidia as far as Cirta, the capital.
January 106 BC: Jugurtha’s loyalists recaptured Cirta.
January 105 BC: Bocchus annexed the western part of Jugurtha's kingdom, and was made a friend of the Roman people. .
January 24 BC: Mauretania became a client kingdom of the Roman Empire in 25 BC when the Romans installed Juba II of Numidia as their client-king.
Disestablishment
January 45: The Roman Emperor Claudius annexed Mauretania directly as a Roman province in 44.
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