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    partitioned between Bocchus II and Bogud II, who are speculated to have been perhaps cousins or brothers, though the lineage is unknown. Bocchus II ruled over...
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    Bocchus, often referred to as Bocchus I for clarity, was king of Mauretania from c. 111 – 80 BCE. He was father-in-law to the Numidian king Jugurtha,...
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    II received Mauretania as his kingdom, enlarged by territory of Western Numidia. According to Strabo, upon the death of the Mauretanian king Bocchus II...
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    Bogud supported Mark Antony, while Bocchus stood by Octavian (later the emperor Augustus). About 38 BC, Bocchus seized Bogud's territory while Bogud...
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  • Bocchus is the name of 2 kings of Mauretania. Bocchus I Bocchus II This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bocchus. If an internal...
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    the combined forces of Jugurtha and Bocchus near Sitifis after a three-day battle and returned to Cirta. Bocchus sought peace and, at the urging of Marius’s...
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  • Africa, against Caesar. In 46 BC, Caesar invaded Africa and his allies, Bocchus II of Mauretania and the mercenary warlord Publius Sittius, invaded Masinissa's...
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  • Massinissa. Numidian control reached the Atlantic ocean to the west. Bocchus II ruled the part east of the Mulucha River, while Bogud ruled the part west...
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    Scipio Nasica, but his kingdom was invaded from the west by Caesar's ally Bocchus II and an Italian adventurer, Publius Sittius. He therefore left only 30...
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    contact with Numidia. Bocchus I ([fl.] 110 BC) was father-in-law to the redoubted Numidian king Jugurtha. After the death of king Bocchus II in 33 BC Rome directly...
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    of western Mauretania) {brother of Bocchus I, evidently not related to Masinissa} [Ilevbare (1980), 175] Bocchus (Sosus) (80–50, of Eastern Mauretania)...
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  • Bogud of the royal house of Mauretania, driven into exile by his brother Bocchus II. Marcus Valerius Messalla, Roman politician March 31 – Titus Pomponius...
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  • commander. As a mercenary he was employed by king Bocchus II of East-Mauretania. Sittius fought for Bocchus against king Juba I of Numidia, capturing Juba's...
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  • doubt that a king named Sosus had ruled Mauretania after Bocchus I and before Bogud and Bocchus II, as had originally been conjectured by American archaeologist...
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    was forced to redeploy west when his kingdom was invaded by his rival, Bocchus II of Mauretania, with forces led by a Roman mercenary, Publius Sittius,...
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  • was broken up and given to Caesar's allies: the western part to King Bocchus II of Mauretania and the eastern part, including Cirta, to Publius Sittius...
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    caught by Publius Sittius (a Roman mercenary commander working for king Bocchus II, the king of eastern Mauretania, and an ally of Caesar) and were executed...
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    monarchy and generals of Numidia [citation needed]. The Berber Kings Bocchus I and Bocchus II lived there. During the 1st century BC, due to the city’s strategic...
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    a client state of the Roman empire in 33 BC, after the death of king Bocchus II, then a full Roman province in AD 40, after the death of its last king...
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  • (its king, Bocchus II, was allied to Caesar). They were ambushed and captured by Publius Sittius (a Roman mercenary commander working for Bocchus). After...
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  • Bogud of the royal house of Mauretania, driven into exile by his brother Bocchus II. Augustus, then known as Imperator Caesar, becomes Roman Consul for the...
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    Pompey’s son-in-law, as propraetor to Mauretania, to persuade kings Bocchus II and Bogud to side with Pompey and abandon Julius Caesar. In 44 BC he was...
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  • Hiempsal II, King (88–60 BC) Juba I, King (60–46 BC) Juba II, client King under Rome (29–25 BC) Morocco Mauretania (complete list) – Bocchus I, King (c...
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  • consequences for the Pompeians, as Bogud's brother the king of East Mauretania, Bocchus II dispatched an army against Numidia led by the Roman Mercenary Commander...
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  • massacre - Bilal Tarikat - Biskra - Biskra Province - Rabah Bitat - Blida - Bocchus II - Bordj Bou Arreridj - Bordj Bou Arreridj Province - Ahmed Bouchiki -...
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  • while in the employ of Bocchus II of eastern Mauretania together they had organised an invasion into the lands of Massinissa II and quickly captured his...
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    River formed the eastern border of the kingdom of Mauretania since King Bocchus I, and more recently of the Rif Republic in the 1920s, a small part of...
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    officers, and received an offer of alliance from Bocchus I, king of Mauretania. The defection of Bocchus, his own father-in-law, filled Jugurtha with alarm...
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    marriage, Bocchus I of Mauretania both his ally and father-in-law, an age-old diplomatic move. At the outset of the major war (112–105 BC), Bocchus stood...
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  • 41 BC, Octavian made Carrinas governor of Spain, where he warred with Bocchus II. In 36 BC, Octavian sent him with three legions against Sextus Pompeius...
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