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numidia

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ancient region in North Africa, roughly corresponding to modern Algeria, Latin, named for its inhabitants, the Numidians , whose name is related to nomad (n.).

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 254 Housing Units (2000): 113 Land area (2000): 1.058389 sq. miles (2.741214 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.058389 sq. miles (2.741214 sq. km) FIPS code: 55792 Located within: Pennsylvania ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Numidia (202 BC – 46 BC) was an ancient kingdom of the Numidians , located in what is now Algeria and a smaller part of Tunisia in the Maghreb . The polity was originally divided between Massylii in the east and Masaesyli in the west. During the Second ...

Usage examples of numidia.

Muluchath formed the border between western Numidia and eastern Mauretania.

Almost at the same period, the bishop of Carthage, from a society less opulent than that of Rome, collected a hundred thousand sesterces, (above eight hundred and fifty pounds sterling,) on a sudden call of charity to redeem the brethren of Numidia, who had been carried away captives by the barbarians of the desert.

If e'er your father's crown adorn your brows, Numidia will be blest by Cato's lectures.

He also recovered Sicily, Africa, Numidia, Mauritania, with amazing dispatch, and by that means gained an illustrious and extensive reputation among all nations, and triumphed while very young and only a Roman knight.

Sitius, and king Bogud, having intelligence of Juba's march, joined their forces, entered Numidia, and laying siege to Cirta, the most opulent city in the county, carried it in a few days, with two others belonging to the Getulians.

Sitius entered Numidia with his troops, and took by storm a castle situated on a mountain, where Juba had laid up a great quantity of provisions, and other things necessary for carrying on the war.

With this escort he reached the frontiers of Numidia, having sent messengers in advance to his father's friends and his own.

After Laelius had sent Syphax and the other prisoners away, he recovered, with Masinissa's aid, the remaining cities in Numidia which were still held by the king's garrisons.

The honours which had had been conferred on the king went far to assuage his grief, and he was encouraged to hope for the speedy possession of the whole of Numidia now that Syphax was out of the way.

When the people heard that the armies of Carthage had been routed, a far-famed king defeated and made prisoner, and a victorious progress made throughout Numidia, they could no longer restrain their feelings and expressed their unbounded joy in shouts and other demonstrations of delight.

From Carthage the legates proceeded to Numidia to visit the two kings.