Romano-Berber kingdoms

A map depicting eight historical and postulated Romano-Berber states during the late sixth and early seventh centuries.

The Romano-Berber Kingdoms were a series of Christianized Romano-Berber states that existed during the sixth to eighth centuries in the region of Mauretania in territory that was formerly a part of Byzantine North Africa or Roman Africa prior to that. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

The Romano-Berber kingdoms known to history or postulated include: ^{[1] [4] [5]}

• Kingdom of Hodna (?–c.539)
• Kingdom of Ouarsenis (430–735)
• Kingdom of Masuna (477–599)
• Kingdom of the Aurès (484–703)
• Kingdom of the Dorsale (c.510–?)
• Kingdom of Altava (578–708)
• Kingdom of Cabaon (?) (Laguatan)
• Ucutumani Kingdom (?) ^{[6] : 4179–81}
• Kingdom of the Nemencha (postulated)
• Kingdom of Capsus (postulated)

References

1. Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa" by A.H. Merrills. Originally it is from Christian Curtois' "Les Vandales et l'Afrique", p. 334
2. Cordovana, O. D. (2022). ‘Fossils’ of political institutions. Rome and Tripolitanian marginal areas during Late Antiquity. Cartagine. Studi e Ricerche, 7.
3. Brown, P. (2012). The rise of Western Christendom: triumph and diversity, AD 200-1000. John Wiley & Sons.
4. Victor Vitensis, Historia persecutionis Africanae Provinciae, I, 36.
5. Courtois, Christian (1955). Les Vandales et l'Afrique. Paris: Arts et Métiers graphiques . Retrieved July 28, 2025– via Internet Archive.
6. Laporte, J.-P. (2005-08-01). "Ketama, Kutama". Encyclopédie berbère (in French) (27): 4179–4187. doi:10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.1346. ISSN   1015-7344.