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Africa Nova

Roman province, North Africa

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Africa Vetus

In Africa
…what Caesar had designated as Africa Nova (“New Africa”)—the old kingdoms of Numidia and Mauretania—so that the province’s western boundary was the Ampsaga (modern Rhumel) River in modern northeastern Algeria. The province generally retained those dimensions until the late 2nd century ce, when a new province of Numidia, created in…
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In North Africa: The rise and decline of native kingdoms
A new province, Africa Nova, was formed from the most developed part of the old Numidian kingdom east of the Ampsaga; it was subsequently (before 27 bc) amalgamated with the original province of Africa by Augustus. In 33 bc Bocchus II of Mauretania died, bequeathing his kingdom to…
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