Battle of Vescera

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The Battle of Vescera (today Biskra in Algeria) was either 682 or 683 fought between the Berbers under King Kusaila and their allies from the Byzantine Exarchate of Carthage and the Arab Umayyad Uqba ibn Nafi army (the founder of Kairouan ). Uqba ibn Nafi had led his army on a campaign through North Africa to the Atlantic, he marched even to the Draa and Sous in the south. On his return march to the north, he was surprised by a Berber -Byzantine army at Tahuda south of Vescera, defeated and killed. With this victory, the Byzantines, the Arabs a decade in the area of what is now Tunisia were able to hold out.