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    Juba II or Juba of Mauretania (Latin: Gaius Iulius Iuba; Ancient Greek: Ἰóβας, Ἰóβα or Ἰούβας; c. 48 BC – AD 23) was the son of Juba I and client king...
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    sister, Octavia the Younger, a former wife of her father. Selene married Juba II of Numidia and Mauretania. She had great influence in Mauretania's government...
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    Roman client king and ruler of Mauretania for Rome. He was the son of Juba II, the king of Numidia and a member of the Berber Massyles tribe, as well...
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    Juba I of Numidia (Latin: IVBA, Punic: ywbʿy; c. 85–46 BC) was a king of Numidia (present-day Algeria) who reigned from 60 to 46 BC. He was the son and...
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    1923–), ed. Felix Jacoby, re "Juba II" at no. 275 (per Roller (2003) at xiii, 313). Duane W. Roller, The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene (2003) at...
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    the tomb where the Numidian Berber King Juba II (son of Juba I of Numidia) and the Queen Cleopatra Selene II, sovereigns of Numidia and Mauretania Caesariensis...
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    of direct administration (33 BC - 25 BC), gave it in 25 BC to Juba II, the son of Juba I and king of Numidia. Subsequently, Numidia (except of Western...
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    client kingdom of the Roman Empire in 25 BC when the Romans installed Juba II of Numidia as their client-king. On his death in AD 23, his Roman-educated...
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    Cassius Dio, who states that when their sister, Cleopatra Selene II, married King Juba II, Octavian (by then named Augustus) spared the lives of Alexander...
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  • Heliodorus and used by later grammarians. He was previously identified with Juba II, the king of Mauretania, but this interpretation is now rejected on chronological...
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    Selene II to Juba II, son of Juba I, whose North African kingdom of Numidia had been turned into a Roman province in 46 BC by Julius Caesar due to Juba I's...
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  • Look up Juba or juba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Juba is the capital of South Sudan. Juba may also refer to: Juba, Estonia, a village in Võru...
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  • youth by the Romans, Juba II had been raised and educated in proximity to the court of Augustus, who became his personal friend. Juba II was installed in...
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    the Origo Gentis. Vennonius wrote an account cited in the Origo Gentis. Juba II wrote a history cited by Plutarch Modern scholarship approaches the various...
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    again in 25 BC after a brief period of restored independence under King Juba II (30 BC–25 BC). The last ruler of the Massylii conquered the Masaesyli and...
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  • (UK)". p. 84. ISBN 0-415-30596-9. Plutarch's Antony "Ptolemy Philadelphus". Archived from the original on 2006-08-28. Cleopatra Selene II and Juba II...
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    Selene II, married King Juba II of Numidia and later Mauretania; the queen of Syria, Zenobia of Palmyra, was reportedly descended from Selene and Juba II. Ptolemy...
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  • and Mark Antony, which would make her a daughter of King Juba II and Queen Cleopatra Selene II of Mauretania, but the chronology of her lifespan makes...
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    from Cappadocia, and a Queen of Mauretania by her second marriage to King Juba II of Mauretania. She was related to the Herodian dynasty by her first and...
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    province Africa Proconsularis. During the brief period (30–25 BC) Juba II (son of Juba I) ruled as a client king of Numidia on the territory of former province...
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    (Greek: ἡ Καισάρεια, hē Kaisáreia), which was given to it in 25 BC by Juba II to honor his benefactor Augustus, who had legally borne the name "Gaius...
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  • physician of Juba II (r. 30 BC – 25 BC). He wrote that a succulent plant, similar to the Euphorbia, was a powerful laxative. In 12 BC, Juba named this plant...
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    island. Around the end of the 1st century BC or early 1st century AD, Juba II established a Tyrian purple factory, processing the murex and purpura shells...
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  • concludes peace with them; Parthia recognizes Roman claims to Armenia. Juba II of Mauretania joins Gaius Caesar in Armenia as a military advisor. It is...
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    Elder, an expedition of Mauretanians sent by Juba II to the archipelago visited the islands: when King Juba II dispatched a contingent to re-open the dye...
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    Bocchus II lived there. During the 1st century BC, due to the city’s strategic location, new defenses were built. The last Numidian king Juba II and his...
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    Augustus. He placed Juba II on the vacant throne of Mauretania, and added to it the southern and eastern parts of Africa Nova. Juba thus nominally ruled...
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    of King Juba II of Numidia and Mauretania and Cleopatra Selene II, daughter of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony. King of Mauretania. Ptolemy II of Telmessos...
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    the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania, at least from the time of King Juba II. Before Volubilis, the capital of the kingdom may have been at Gilda. Built...
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    the Roman Curio by an unnamed Libyan citizen. The learned client king Juba II (died 23 BC), husband of the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra, claimed...
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