Romano-Berber kingdoms
The Romano-Berber Kingdoms were a series of Christianized Romano-Berber states that existed during the sixth to eighth centuries in the region of Mauretania in territory that was formerly a part of Byzantine North Africa or Roman Africa prior to that.[1][2][3]
The Romano-Berber kingdoms known to history or postulated include:[1][4][5]
- Kingdom of Hodna (?–c.539)
- Kingdom of Ouarsenis (430–735)
- Kingdom of Masuna (477–599)
- Kingdom of the Aurès (484–703)
- Kingdom of the Dorsale (c.510–?)
- Kingdom of Altava (578–708)
- Kingdom of Cabaon (?) (Laguatan)
- Ucutumani Kingdom (?)[6]: 4179–81
- Kingdom of the Nemencha (postulated)
- Kingdom of Capsus (postulated)
References
- ^ a b c Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa" by A.H. Merrills. Originally it is from Christian Curtois' "Les Vandales et l'Afrique", p. 334
- ^ Cordovana, O. D. (2022). ‘Fossils’ of political institutions. Rome and Tripolitanian marginal areas during Late Antiquity. Cartagine. Studi e Ricerche, 7.
- ^ Brown, P. (2012). The rise of Western Christendom: triumph and diversity, AD 200-1000. John Wiley & Sons.
- ^ Victor Vitensis, Historia persecutionis Africanae Provinciae, I, 36.
- ^ Courtois, Christian (1955). Les Vandales et l'Afrique. Paris: Arts et Métiers graphiques. Retrieved July 28, 2025 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Laporte, J.-P. (2005-08-01). "Ketama, Kutama". Encyclopédie berbère (in French) (27): 4179–4187. doi:10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.1346. ISSN 1015-7344.