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Battle of Cirta (106 BC)
The Battle of Cirta (106 BC) was a Roman victory near Cirta, Numidia, where Gaius Marius and Sulla defeated King Jugurtha and King Bocchus of Mauretania.
Battle of Oroscopa
The Battle of Oroscopa, or Oroscopis, was the 151/150 BC defeat of a Carthaginian army under Hasdrubal by Massinissa, king of Numidia, after he besieged Oroscopa.
Battle of Suthul
The Battle of Suthul was a Roman defeat by Jugurtha of Numidia in late 110 or early 109 BC, ending with the army passing under the yoke.
Capture of Jugurtha
The capture of Jugurtha was the seizure of Jugurtha, king of Numidia, by his ally Bocchus I of Mauretania, who handed him to Sulla in 106 BC, ending the Jugurthine War.
Capture of Syphax
The capture of Syphax was the seizure in 203 BC of Syphax, king of the Numidian Masaesyli, by Gaius Laelius and Masinissa after his defeat near Cirta.
Jugurthine War
The Jugurthine War, or Bellum Iugurthinum, was Rome's war against Jugurtha of Numidia from 112 BC, ending when Bocchus betrayed him to Sulla in 106 BC.
Lepcis Magna's appeal to Rome
Lepcis Magna's appeal to Rome, also called its alliance with Rome, was the Phoenician city's submission to Roman protection at the start of the Jugurthine War in 111 BC.
Masinissa's unification of Numidia
Masinissa's unification of Numidia was the creation of a single Numidian kingdom around 202 BC, when the Roman settlement after the Battle of Zama gave Syphax's dominions to Masinissa.
Massylii–Masaesyli war
The Massylii–Masaesyli war was a war in Numidia between Masinissa, king of the Massylii, and Syphax, king of the Masaesyli, ending with Syphax's capture in 203 BC.
Siege of Cirta (112 BC)
The siege of Cirta was Jugurtha's 112 BC capture of the Numidian capital, where he tortured his co-ruler Adherbal to death, starting the Jugurthine War.
Siege of Cirta (203 BC)
The Siege of Cirta in 203 BC was the capture of Syphax's Numidian capital by Masinissa and the Roman commander Gaius Laelius, ending with Syphax a prisoner.
Siege of the fortress at Muluccha
The siege of the fortress at Muluccha was a 106 BC siege by Gaius Marius's Roman army of a Numidian fortress holding Jugurtha's treasury, decided when a Ligurian auxiliary found a hidden path up the rock.
Siege of Zama
The siege of Zama was a failed Roman attempt in 109 BC, during the Jugurthine War, to capture Zama Regia, a royal Numidian city loyal to King Jugurtha.
Syphax's war against Carthage
Syphax's war against Carthage (c. 214–206 BC) was the conflict in which Syphax, king of the Masaesyli in Numidia, broke with Carthage and allied with Rome.
Syphax's war with Masinissa
Syphax's war with Masinissa was the war between Numidia's two kings, Syphax allied to Carthage and Masinissa to Rome, ending with Syphax's capture at Cirta in 203 BC.
War of Hiempsal and Adherbal
The War of Hiempsal and Adherbal was the Numidian succession conflict of 118-116 BC, in which Jugurtha fought his adoptive cousins for the whole kingdom.