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Africa was a Roman province on the northern coast of the continent of Africa. It was established in 146 BC, following the Roman Republic 's conquest of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, and the coast of western Libya along the Gulf of Sidra.
Africa, in ancient Roman history, the first North African territory of Rome, at times roughly corresponding to modern Tunisia. It was acquired in 146 bce after the destruction of Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War. Initially, the province comprised the territory that had been subject to.
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African Greeks [1] · Berbers · Punics · Maghrebis. The Roman Africans or African Romans ( Latin: Afri) were the ancient populations of Roman North Africa that had a Romanized culture, some of whom spoke their own variety of Latin as a result. [2] They existed from the Roman conquest until their language gradually faded out after the Arab ...
Africa was a Roman province on the northern coast of the continent of Africa. It was established in 146 BC, following the Roman Republic's conquest of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, and the coast of western Libya along the Gulf of Sidra.
The Roman provinces (Latin: provincia, pl. provinciae) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire.
Africa, Proconsular Roman province. It was founded after Rome defeated Carthage in 146 bc and was subsequently extended to include Numidia and the northern part of modern Libya. Between 30 bc and ad 180, other parts of northern Africa, including Cyrenaica and Mauretania, became part of the Roman Republic and Empire.
Background. Provincia Africa Proconsularis, commonly referred to as simply Africa Proconsularis or Roman Africa, was a province of the Roman Empire located in the northern part of Africa, corresponding roughly to modern-day Tunisia and parts of eastern Algeria and western Libya.
