{"slug": "mauretania", "label": "Mauretania", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauretania", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309272", "qid": "Q309272", "description": "Ancient region in North Africa", "entries": 21, "years": 21, "span": [-104, 540], "span_label": ["105 BCE", "540 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 10}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "vandals", "label": "Vandals", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "numidia", "label": "Numidia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "genseric", "label": "Genseric", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "africa-roman-province", "label": "Africa (Roman province)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "algeria", "label": "Algeria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "moors", "label": "Moors", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "western-roman-empire", "label": "Western Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "stilicho", "label": "Stilicho", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -104, "year_label": "105 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Lucius Cornelius Sulla secures the capture of Jugurtha. His success is made possible by the treachery of Bocchus I, king of Mauretania, and this ends the Jugurthine War (which began in 112 BC).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1225571066#Roman_Republic", "title": "105 BC", "revid": 1225571066, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -31, "year_label": "32 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Zacynthus is held by Gaius Sosius, and Methone (Messenia) by Bogud of the royal house of Mauretania, driven into exile by his brother Bocchus II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325920749#Roman_Republic", "title": "32 BC", "revid": 1325920749, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -25, "year_label": "26 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Cleopatra Selene marries Juba II of Numidia, and as a wedding present Augustus makes her the queen of Mauretania in her own right.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369286058#Roman_Empire", "title": "26 BC", "revid": 1369286058, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 2, "year_label": "2 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "AD 2 – Juba II of Mauretania joins Gaius Caesar in Armenia as a military advisor. It is during this period that he meets Glaphyra, a Cappadocian princess and the former wife of Alexandros of Judea, a brother of Herod Archelaus, ethnarch of Judea, and becomes enamoured with her.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365712040#Africa", "title": "0s", "revid": 1365712040, "section": "Events › Africa"}}, {"year": 23, "year_label": "23 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Juba II, king of Mauretania (b. c. 50 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#23_AD", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Deaths › 23 AD"}}, {"year": 24, "year_label": "24 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Roman war against Numidia and Mauretania ends with the annexation of the two African kingdoms.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#Roman_Empire", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Events › 24 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 38, "year_label": "38 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Drusilla, princess of Mauretania", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#38_AD", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Births › 38 AD"}}, {"year": 40, "year_label": "40 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Noricum and Mauretania are incorporated into the Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_40", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 40"}}, {"year": 44, "year_label": "44 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Mauretania becomes a Roman province.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_44", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 44"}}, {"year": 144, "year_label": "144 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Roman campaigns in Mauretania begin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1299409108#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 144", "revid": 1299409108, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 217, "year_label": "217 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Macrinus, of Mauretania, becomes the first equestrian Roman emperor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371227173#Roman_Empire", "title": "217", "revid": 1371227173, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 299, "year_label": "299 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Having first crossed into Africa in 296, Emperor Maximian concludes his campaigns against the Quinquegentiani and other Berbers. His campaigns had ranged as far as Mauretania in the west and Tripolitania in the east. Julianus, a rebel leader in Africa, throws himself into a fire after the Romans breach the walls of his stronghold.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267078871#Roman_Empire", "title": "299", "revid": 1267078871, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 367, "year_label": "367 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Eunomius of Cyzicus is banished to Mauretania for harbouring the usurper Procopius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326556842#Roman_Empire", "title": "367", "revid": 1326556842, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 373, "year_label": "373 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Count Theodosius the Elder is appointed commander of an expedition to suppress the rebellion of Firmus in Mauretania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364742164#Roman_Empire", "title": "373", "revid": 1364742164, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 398, "year_label": "398 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gildonic Revolt: Gildo, a Berber serving as a high-ranking official (comes) in Mauretania, rebels against the Western Roman Empire. The Gildonic Revolt is instigated by a powerful official in the Eastern Roman Empire named Eutropius, who wishes to undermine his enemies in the Western Roman Empire by cutting off the grain supply to Rome. After Gildo takes much of North Africa and cuts off the grain supply to Rome, Flavius Stilicho returns to Italy to raise troops against the rebels. After a short campaign in the desert, he defeats Gildo. Gildo flees and commits suicide by hanging himself.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364744112#Roman_Empire", "title": "398", "revid": 1364744112, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 429, "year_label": "429 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Genseric seizes lands from the Berbers and destroys church buildings all over Mauretania. He goes on a rampage forcing Bonifacius, Roman governor, to retreat to the fortified coastal town of Hippo Regius (modern Annaba).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333669155#Roman_Empire", "title": "429", "revid": 1333669155, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 435, "year_label": "435 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Genseric concludes a peace treaty with the Romans, under which the Vandals retain Mauretania and a part of Numidia as foederati (allies under a special treaty) of Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339038049#Africa", "title": "435", "revid": 1339038049, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 442, "year_label": "442 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "End of the Vandal War (439-442): Emperor Valentinian III signs a peace treaty with King Genseric, and recognises the Vandal Kingdom. He grants him sovereignty over most of Africa. Genseric gives back Sicily and Mauretania (Algeria and Morocco). This marks the end of the Vandal migrations; they settle in North Africa, with Carthage as their capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333113526#Africa", "title": "AD 442", "revid": 1333113526, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 460, "year_label": "460 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Genseric, fearing a Roman invasion, tries to negotiate peace with Majorian, who refuses. The Vandals devastate Mauretania and Moorish warriors poison the wells.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598361#Roman_Empire", "title": "460", "revid": 1360598361, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 537, "year_label": "537 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Battle of Scalas Veteres (6 km south of Carthage, in the Praetorian prefecture of Africa): Byzantine troops under Germanus crush a large-scale mutiny. Stotzas, leader of the rebellion, flees with a handful of followers to Mauretania.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370992976#Africa", "title": "537", "revid": 1370992976, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 540, "year_label": "540 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Solomon captures the Aurès Mountains from the Moors and extends Byzantine authority over Numidia and Mauretania Sitifensis. The city of Theveste (Algeria) is restored and fortified.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367291057#Africa", "title": "540", "revid": 1367291057, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}]}