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		In Antiquity, Mauretania was originally an independent Berber kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa (named after the Maure tribe, after whom the Moors were named), corresponding to western Algeria, and northern Morocco.
		Claudius annexed Mauretania directly as a Roman province in 44, under an imperial (not senatorial) governor.
		Mauretania gave to the empire one emperor, the equestrian Macrinus, who seized power after the assassination of Caracalla in 217 but was himself defeated and executed by Elagabalus the next year.
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	Mauretania - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In Antiquity, Mauretania was originally an independent Berber kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa (named after the Maure tribe, after whom the Moors were named), corresponding to western Algeria, Spain's Plaza de soberanía and northern Morocco.
		Mauretania Caesariensis, comprising western and central Algeria as far as Kabylia.
		Mauretania gave to the empire one emperor, the equestrian Macrinus, who seized power after the assassination of Caracalla in 217 but was himself defeated and executed by Elegabalus the next year.
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	Mauretania Information
		In Antiquity, Mauretania was a Berber kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa (named after the Maure tribe, after whom the Moors were named), corresponding to western Algeria, Spain's Plaza de soberanía and northern Morocco.
		When Juba died in 23, his Roman-educated son Ptolemy of Mauretania succeeded him on the throne, but Caligula killed him in 40 and annexed Mauretania directly as a Roman province in 42, under an imperial (not senatorial) governor.
		Mauretania gave to the empire one emperor, the equestrian Macrinus, who seized power after the assassination of Caracalla in 217 but was himself defeated and executed by Elegabalus the next year.
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	Mauretania - ZDNet
		In Antiquity, Mauretania was originally an independent Berber kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa (named after the Maure tribe, after whom the Moors were named), corresponding to western Algeria, Spain's Plaza de soberanía and northern Morocco.
		When Juba died in 23, his Roman-educated son Ptolemy of Mauretania succeeded him on the throne, but Caligula killed him in 40 and Claudius annexed Mauretania directly as a Roman province in 44, under an imperial (not senatorial) governor.
		Mauretania gave to the empire one emperor, the equestrian Macrinus, who seized power after the assassination of Caracalla in 217 but was himself defeated and executed by Elegabalus the next year.
	mauretania.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Mauretania (619 words)

	Province - LoveToKnow 1911
		For the administration of the finances these lieutenants had procurators under them, while the governors of the senatorial provinces continued to have quaestors as under the republic.
		Another class of imperial provinces consisted of those which from the physical nature of the country (as the Alpine districts) or the backward state of civilization (as Mauretania and Thrace) or the stubborn character of the people (as Judaea and Egypt) were not adapted to receive a regular provincial constitution.
		These were regarded as domains of the emperor, and were managed by a procurator (in the case of Egypt by a praefect, see Praefect) nominated by and responsible to the emperor.
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		The name derives from the old Berber tribe of the Mauri and their kingdom, Mauretania, which became a Roman province after its last king Bocchus II willed it to Octavian in 33 BC.
		Mauretania was a Berber kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa (named after the Mauri tribe, after whom the Moors were named), corresponding to western Algeria and northern Morocco.
		The kingdom of Mauretania was not sited where modern Mauritania lies, on the Atlantic coast south of Morocco.
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		The Berbers, often referred to in modern ethnic activist circles as "Amazigh," are more commonly known as "Berber" or by their regional ethnic identity, such as Chleuh.
		In the classical period, Morocco was known as Mauretania, although this should not be confused with the modern country of Mauritania.
		The arrival of Phoenicians heralded a long engagement with the wider Mediterranean, as this strategic region formed part of the Roman Empire, as Mauretania Tingitana.
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	Morocco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Morocco in many other languages originates from the name of the former capital, Marrakech, deriving from a Berber expression meaning "Land of God".
		In the classical period Morocco was known as Mauretania, although this should not be confused with the modern country of Mauritania.
		The arrival of Phoenicians heralded a long engagement with the wider Mediterranean, as this strategic region formed part of the Roman Empire, as Mauretania Tingitana.
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		For other uses of this term, see 367 (disambiguation).
		Great Conspiracy: A general assault of Saxons, Irish, and Attacotti combined with a general revolt of the garrison on Hadrian's Wall devastate Roman Britain.
		Eunomius of Cyzicus is banished to Mauretania for harbouring the usurper Procopius.
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	Moors
		The word was also used more generally in Europe to refer to anyone of Arab, Berber or North African descent.
		The name Moors derives from the ancient tribe of the Maure and their kingdom, Mauretania.
		Considering that Berbers were a mixture of various shades of diverse nomadic groups comprised of East Africans, North Africans, West Africans and Sub-Saharan Africans the claims of racial heritage being of one specific group are at best dubious.
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	Morocco Encyclopedia @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The area of modern Morocco has been inhabited since Neolithic times, at least 8000 BC, as attested by signs of the Capsian culture, in a time when the Maghreb was less arid than it is today.
		Modern genetic analyses have confirmed that various populations have contributed to the present-day population, including, in addition to the main ethnic groups - Berbers and Arabs - Phoenicians, Sephardic Jews, and sub-Saharan Africans.
		During this time, however, the high mountains of most of modern Morocco remained unsubdued, and stayed in the hands of their Berber inhabitants.
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	Moors - Articles about India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The name Moors derives from the ancient tribe of the Maure and their kingdom, Mauretania.
		Considering that Berbers were a mixture of various shades of diverse nomadic groups comprised of East Africans, North Africans, West Africans and Sub-Saharan Africans the claims of racial heritage being of one specific group are at best dubious.
		In Spanish usage, "Moro" (Moor) came to have an even broader usage, to mean "Muslims" in general (just as "Rumi", "from the Eastern Roman Empire", came to mean "Christian" in many Arabic dialects); thus the Moros of Mindanao in the Philippines, and the Moriscos of Granada.
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		Caligula's reign was short and surviving sources record few of Caligula's political achievements.
		During his reign, Mauretania was annexed and reorganized into two provinces.
		Several riots took place in Alexandria and other eastern cities between Jews and Greeks that were quelled.
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	ipedia.com: Juba Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Juba I of Numidia Juba II of Numidia Juba of Mauretania Titus Desticius Juba Jubaland is a region in southern Somalia, bounded by the Ju...
		Juba is the pen name of a Finnish cartoonist.
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
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	directopedia : Directory : Regional : Europe : Portugal : Madeira
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		72 BC), relates that after his return to Cadiz following a military reverse in Mauretania, "he met seamen recently arrived from Atlantic islands, two in number, divided from one another only by a narrow channel and distant from the coast of Africa 10,000 furlongs.
		They are called Isles of the Blest." The estimated distance from Africa, and the closeness of the two islands, seem to indicate Madeira and Porto Santo.
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		Mauretania was a Berber kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa (named after the Mauri tribe, after whom the Moors were named), corresponding to western Algeria and northern Morocco.
		The kingdom of Mauretania was not sited where modern Mauritania lies, on the Atlantic coast south of Morocco.
		With the rise of the Roman Empire it became a Roman client kingdom.
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		For other uses of the word, see Carthage (disambiguation).
		Carthage (from the Phoenician Kart-Hadasht, the "New City", written without vowels in Punic as Qrthdst), was a city in north Africa located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis, across from the center of modern Tunis in Tunisia.
		The name derives from the ancient Berber tribe of the Mauri and their kingdom, Mauretania, which became a Roman province after its last king Bocchus II willed it to Octavian in 33 BCE.
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		For other uses of this term, see Morocco (disambiguation).
		The Berbers, often referred to in modern ethnic activist circles as "Amazigh," are more commonly generically as Berber or by their regional ethnic identity, such as Chleuh.
		In the classical period modern Morocco was known Mauretania, although this should not be confused with the modern country of Mauretania.
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	Roman Empire - Databank
		For other senses of this name, see Roman Empire (disambiguation).
		Hadrian's army crushed a massive Jewish uprising in Judea (132-135) led by Bar Kokhba.
		His reign was comparatively peaceful; there were several military disturbances throughout the Empire in his time, in Mauretania, Iudaea, and amongst the Brigantes in Britain, but none of them are considered serious.
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	Atlas (King) at AllExperts
		For other meanings of Atlas see Atlas (disambiguation)
		Late Hellenistic and Roman poets reimagined the Titan Atlas as a giant ruler in the westernmost lands, and early modern translators such as Thomas Bulfinch made of that hint a King Atlas, a mythical King of Mauretania, west of Libya, who provided an alternative etiological origin-tale for the Atlas Mountains of North Africa.
		The hints in literary myth-makers' poetical license are to be found in a lost poem of Polyidus,
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	Wikipedia: Lusitania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		There was a ship named RMS Lusitania made by the Cunard line in 1916, but sank due to a torpedo strike by a German U-Boat.
		Its sister, the RMS Mauretania served as a troop carrier.
		Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)
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		Government's left in the number of Africa Environmental Journalists Based on the leaders mansions near Nouadhibou.
		HomeNewsLocalNationalAP Video Insurgents respond to the Mauretania had been destroyed nouakchott mauritania, when new waterpump for free the heavy fines.
		The ship lands nouakchott mauritania, Guinean officials argued with a major towns.
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