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    The Garamantes (Ancient Greek: Γαράμαντες, romanized: Garámantes; Latin: Garamantes) were ancient peoples, who may have descended from Berber tribes,...
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    Sahara (section Garamantes)
    civilization, the Garamantes, arose around 500 BCE in the Sahara, in a valley that is now called the Wadi al-Ajal in Fezzan, Libya. The Garamantes built a prosperous...
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    from Libyan Sabratha and with ten thousand legionaries conquered the Garamantes capital in Fezzan. He then sent a small group of his legionaries further...
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    empire for two and half centuries. The Garamantes also engaged in the trans-Saharan slave trade. The Garamantes used slaves in their own communities to...
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    and the Garamantes at this time – no doubt as a result of Flaccus's success – made his way from Leptis Magna through the land of the Garamantes to the...
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  • referred to the Troglodytae in his Histories as being a people hunted by the Garamantes in Libya. He said that the Troglodytae were the swiftest runners of all...
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    Arabia Petraea. In 202, he campaigned in Africa and Mauretania against the Garamantes, capturing their capital Garama, and expanding the Limes Tripolitanus...
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  • wagons. In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus reported use of chariots by Garamantes in the Saharan region of North Africa. In the 1st century CE, Strabo reported...
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  • Augusta under Quintus Anicius Faustus fights a guerrilla war against the Garamantes along the Limes Tripolitanus. They capture several settlements such as...
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    archaeological site in Libya. It was the capital of the Garamantian Kingdom. The Garamantes were a Saharan Berber people living in the Fezzan in the northeastern...
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  • region of Tunisia and Southern Tripolitania. They were bordered by the Garamantes people to the east and were under the coastal Libyes people. The coastal...
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    the honor of a triumph on the Forum Romanum, for his victories over the Garamantes in Africa. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa completes the Aqua Virgo; the aqueduct...
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    against the Garamantes to soften the duty. The expedition would aim the conquest of the city of Garama, an important city for the Garamantes, eliminating...
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    Nicon Essina Rauso Nilotic Peoples African kingdoms North Africa Carthage Garamantes Nasamones chiefdom Cyrene Blemmyes Massylii Confederation Numidia Mauretania...
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    the ancient Nubians were taken as slaves by the ancient Egyptians. The Garamantes relied heavily on slave labor from sub-Saharan Africa. They used slaves...
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  • Look up kreda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kreda or Karre or garamantes may refer to: Kreda, a clan of the Toubou people of North Africa Kréda (horse)...
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    Nicon Essina Rauso Nilotic Peoples African kingdoms North Africa Carthage Garamantes Nasamones chiefdom Cyrene Blemmyes Massylii Confederation Numidia Mauretania...
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  • Sidon); the five Philistine city-states; the Berber city-states of the Garamantes; the city-states of ancient Greece (the poleis such as Athens, Sparta...
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    peoples such as the Mauri, Masaesyli, Massyli, Musulamii, Gaetuli, and Garamantes gave rise to Berber kingdoms, such as Numidia and Mauretania. Other kingdoms...
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  • Graltinus Maximus Aurelius Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor) – defeated the Garamantes Barbatio Belisarius Lucilius Bassus Publius Ventidius Bassus Bonifacius...
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    Nicon Essina Rauso Nilotic Peoples African kingdoms North Africa Carthage Garamantes Nasamones chiefdom Cyrene Blemmyes Massylii Confederation Numidia Mauretania...
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    Sahara, which convinced the Garamantes that their advantage in desert warfare no longer held. After that the Garamantes started to become a client state...
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  • They have been identified by some writers as probable descendants of the Garamantes. At an uncertain date, perhaps around 1500, they established their domination...
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    the Late Bronze Age. The earliest known name of such a tribe was the Garamantes, based in Germa. The Phoenicians were the first to establish trading posts...
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    kingdom and home of the legendary King Atlas, and various tribes such as Garamantes, Musulamii, and Bavares. The Third Punic War would result in Carthage's...
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  • and Nasamon: two heroes who are worshiped by Garamantes and Nasamones alike Awjila Cyrenaica Garamantes Strabo, Geography, §17.3.20 Arrian (1814). Arrian's...
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    From the 5th century BCE to the 5th century CE, Fezzan was home to the Garamantes, who operated the Trans-Saharan trade routes successively between Carthage...
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    In the year 17, the local Berber tribes, the Numidian Tacfarinas and Garamantes, started to revolt against the Kingdom of Mauretania and Rome. The war...
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    the Greeks, in Cyrenaica. Fezzan was home to a Beber people known as Garamantes Archaeological evidence indicates that the coastal plain was inhabited...
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    v t e Berbers Ancient Bavares Banioubae Gaetuli Garamantes Koidamousii/Ucutumani Leuathae Libu Libya Macae Machlyes Marmaridae Mauri Bakouatae Makanitae...
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