Kingdom of the Nemencha
Kingdom of the Nemencha | |||||||||
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 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 | ||||||||
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| Historical era | Medieval | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Algeria | ||||||||
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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
References
- ^ Ilevbare 1955, p. 167.
- ^ Courtois 1955, pp. 334.
- ^ 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.