Massylii

The Massylier (Greek Μασσύλιοι Massylioi, latin Massyli ) were an ancient people inhabiting the eastern Numidia. In the east, bordering its territory ( Massylia ) at Carthage, on the west by Masaisylia, the territory of Massäsylier. The main places were Cirta, Tébessa and Thugga.

Kings

Kings of Massylier were:

  • Gaia ( numidisch GJJ )
  • Masinissa ( Punic MSNSN, 201-149 BC ), son of Gaia
  • Micipsa ( Punic MKWSN, 148-118 BC), Gulussa ( Punic GLSN ) and Mastanabal ( Punic MSTN ` B '), sons of Masinissa
  • Adherbal ( 118-112 BC ), son of Micipsa
  • Hiempsal I ( 118-117 BC ), son of Micipsa
  • Jugurtha ( 118-105 BC), nephew and adopted son of Micipsa
  • Gauda ( 105-88 BC ), son of Mastanabal
  • Masteabar ( Ostmasaisylia and Westmassylia ) and Hiempsal II (son of Gauda, Ostmassylia and Emporia )
  • Arabion ( Westmassylia, 44-41 / 40 of BC) and Juba I. ( Ostmassylia, about 60 to 46 BC )

Massylia under Roman supremacy

After the victory of Gaius Julius Caesar on the Pompeian and thus Juba I. Ostmassyliens the eastern part became part of the newly created province of Caesar Africa nova. The western part Ostmassyliens, ie the area around Cirta, fell to the adventurer Sittius Publius, who gave the land to his soldiers and a Roman colony einrichtete, Colonia Cirta Sittianorum. Sittius himself was assassinated 44 BC by Arabion. Bocchus II of Mauritania, a friend of Sittius and also an ally in the war against Caesar Juba received Westmassylien and Ostmasaesylien ( the area around Sitifis ).

Swell

  • Hesianax FGrH 763 F 1
  • Polybius 3:33. , 15
  • Strabo 17.3.9
  • Pliny Naturalis historia 5.2
  • Silius Italicus Punica 16170-172
  • Appian libyca 10:37, 27 110, 46 195
Hiempsal I. Gauda (king) Hiempsal II. Publius Sittius
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