Byzacena

Byzacena (also Byzacium ) was a province of the Roman Empire.

Towards the end of the 3rd century AD, the Roman Emperor Diocletian split under its administrative reforms of the large province of Africa two smaller provinces from, Byzacena and Tripolitania. The former included the Sahel region of Tunisia.

Hadrumetum became capital of the newly created province Byzacena and developed to Carthage the most important city in Roman North Africa.

The province shared the fate of the Roman Africa and was on 15 December 533 site of the Battle of Tricamarum, which sealed the fate of the Vandal kingdom in North Africa. 590 was the Byzacena part of the Exarchate of Carthage. To the 670 Byzacena of the Uqba ibn Nafi Arab commander was captured, who founded the same year Kairouan. When the Exarch with the Berber princes Kusaila ibn Uqba ibn Nafi Lemzem 683 hit devastating, the province was recaptured, but fell later than 698 final to the Arabs.

• Roman province (North Africa)
• Tunisian History ( Ancient )
• Carthage
• Geography (Tunisia )