Kingdom of the Nemencha

Kingdom of the Nemencha
Map of the Romano-Berber Kingdoms, according to the French historian Christian Courtois. Number 5 is the Kingdom of the Nemencha.
Status	Rump state of the Mauro-Roman Kingdom
Common languages	Berber, African Romance Latin
Government	Monarchy
King
Historical era	Medieval
Preceded by Succeeded by Mauro-Roman Kingdom Umayyad Caliphate
Today part of	Algeria

The Kingdom of the Nemencha is the name given to a postulated Romano-Berber kingdom located in the Nemencha Mountains of what is present-day Algeria. ^[1] The historicity of the kingdom was proposed by the French historian Christian Courtois in his 1955 book Les Vandales Et L'Afrique. ^[2] Whether this kingdom existed as a real polity, however, is far from certain, with the historian Abdallah Laroui arguing that Courtois's reasoning for its existence is "problematic". ^[3]

See also

• Mauro-Roman Kingdom
• Exarchate of Africa

References

1. Ilevbare 1955, p. 167. sfn error: no target: CITEREFIlevbare1955 (help)
2. Courtois 1955, pp. 334.
3. Laroui 1977, p. 73.

Bibliography

• Courtois, Christian (1955). Les Vandales et l'Afrique (in French). Paris: Arts et Métiers graphiques . Retrieved July 28, 2025– via Internet Archive.
• Ilevbare, J. A. Carthage, Rome and the Berbers. Ibadan University Press.
• Laroui, Abdallah (1977). The History of the Maghrib: An Interpretive Essay. Princeton University Press. ISBN   9781400869985.