1) Mauretania. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Mauretania, (mor´ta´ne) (KEY) , ancient district of Africa in Roman times. In a vague sense it meant only "the land of the Moors" and lay W of Numidia, but more specifically...
2) Mauretania. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Roman Empire in present-day Morocco and Algeria. Settled by a Berber people, it was ruled by Rome from c. 100 b.c. to the fifth century a.d. Maure·tani·an -ADJECTIVE...
3) Priscian. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(Priscianus Caesariensis) (prish´n) (KEY) , fl. 500, Latin grammarian, b. Caesarea in Mauretania. Priscian taught grammar at Constantinople. His Commentarii grammatici,...
4) Moors. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Moors, nomadic people of the northern shores of Africa, originally the inhabitants of Mauretania. They were chiefly of Berber and Arab stock. In the 8th cent. the...
5) Paulinus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(KEY) , d. after A.D. 69, Roman general. Under Claudius I he was stationed (A.D. 42) in Mauretania, and he advanced inland past the Atlas Mts. In A.D. 59 he had the...
6) 4. The Roman Empire, 14-284 C.E. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...the provinces of Gallia Transalpina, Britannia, Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia, Moesia, Dacia, Mauretania, Cyrenaica, Egypt, Thrace, Syria, Judaea, Mesopotamia, Bithynia...
7) Juba I, king of Numidia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...c.A.D. 20, was educated in Rome and reinstated as king, probably first in Numidia, then in Mauretania (c.25 B.C.). Augustus gave to him in marriage Cleopatra Selene,...
8) Claudius I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the senators, who never forgave Claudius. It also made him favor the army. He annexed Mauretania and landed in A.D. 43 in Britain, which he made a province. Agrippa's...
9) Jugurtha. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...to apply pressure on Jugurtha, who was being supported by his father-in-law, Bocchus, king of Mauretania. Jugurtha was captured (106 B.C.) when Bocchus betrayed him,...
10) Berbers. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the Basques, and the Caucasians. In classical times the Berbers formed such states as Mauretania and Numidia. 2Until their conquest in the 7th cent. by Muslim Arabs,...
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