{"slug": "masinissa", "label": "Masinissa", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masinissa", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314685", "qid": "Q314685", "description": "first king of Numidia from 202 BC to 148 BC", "entries": 10, "years": 9, "span": [-237, -147], "span_label": ["238 BCE", "148 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "numidia", "label": "Numidia", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "scipio-africanus", "label": "Scipio Africanus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-censor", "label": "Roman censor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cato-the-elder", "label": "Cato the Elder", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hannibal", "label": "Hannibal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "second-punic-war", "label": "Second Punic War", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -237, "year_label": "238 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Masinissa, king of Numidia (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342094383#Births", "title": "238 BC", "revid": 1342094383, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -205, "year_label": "206 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After being an ally of Carthage and fighting with them, Numidian chieftain, Masinissa switches sides when the Carthaginians are driven from Spain and offers to assist Rome. Syphax expels his rival Masinissa and claims himself to be King of Numidia. The Romans support Masinissa's claim to the Numidian throne against Syphax, the pro-Carthaginian ruler of the Masaesyli tribe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361853494#Carthage", "title": "206 BC", "revid": 1361853494, "section": "Events › By place › Carthage"}}, {"year": -203, "year_label": "204 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Having lost his alliance with the Numidian chief Masinissa, the Carthaginian general, Hasdrubal Gisco, finds a new ally in the Numidian king Syphax, who marries Sophonisba, Hasdrubal's daughter, who, until his defection to Rome, has been betrothed to Masinissa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300115585#Carthage", "title": "204 BC", "revid": 1300115585, "section": "Events › By place › Carthage"}}, {"year": -202, "year_label": "203 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Roman general, Gaius Laelius, and Rome's Numidian ally, Masinissa, follow Syphax towards Cirta, the Numidian capital. In the pursuit, Syphax is captured after his badly wounded horse throws him off. He is delivered to Scipio and is made a prisoner of the Romans, dying in the Italian town of Alba Fucens later in the year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325743211#Carthage", "title": "203 BC", "revid": 1325743211, "section": "Events › By place › Carthage"}}, {"year": -201, "year_label": "202 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 19", "text": "October 19 – The Battle of Zama (130 kilometers south-west of Carthage) ends the Second Punic War and largely destroys the power of Carthage. Roman and Numidian forces under the leadership of the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio and his Numidian ally, Masinissa, defeat a combined army of Carthaginians and their Numidian allies under the command of Hannibal and force Carthage to capitulate. Hannibal loses 20,000 men in the defeat, but he is able to escape Masinissa's pursuit.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1278127245#Carthage", "title": "202 BC", "revid": 1278127245, "section": "Events › By place › Carthage"}}, {"year": -170, "year_label": "171 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Lucius Postumius Albinus is sent by Rome as an ambassador to King Masinissa of Numidia, and to the Carthaginians in order to raise troops for the war against Perseus of Macedonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352698432#Roman_Republic", "title": "171 BC", "revid": 1352698432, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -156, "year_label": "157 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Carthaginians, prevented by their treaty with Rome from engaging in armed resistance, but equally guaranteed against any loss of territory, appeal to Rome against the depredations of King Masinissa of Numidia. The Roman censor Marcus Porcius Cato heads a commission which arbitrates a truce between Carthage and her former ally, Masinissa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311551494#Roman_Republic", "title": "157 BC", "revid": 1311551494, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -149, "year_label": "150 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Scipio Aemilianus is sent by the Roman general, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, to Numidia to obtain some elephants from the Numidian king Masinissa, the friend of his grandfather Scipio Africanus. While there, he witnesses a great but indecisive battle between the Numidians and the Carthaginians. The latter then ask Scipio Aemilianus to arrange a settlement, but the negotiations break down.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210509839#Carthage", "title": "150 BC", "revid": 1210509839, "section": "Events › By place › Carthage"}}, {"year": -147, "year_label": "148 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus divides Numidia among the three sons of the recently deceased Masinissa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341236547#Roman_Republic", "title": "148 BC", "revid": 1341236547, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -147, "year_label": "148 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Masinissa, king of Numidia (b. c. 238 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341236547#Deaths", "title": "148 BC", "revid": 1341236547, "section": "Deaths"}}]}