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Adherbal (king of Numidia)
Adherbal was a king of Numidia, son of Micipsa and grandson of Masinissa, who reigned from 118 BC until his cousin Jugurtha killed him at Cirta in 112 BC.
Adicran
Adicran was, according to Herodotus, the king of the Libyans around Cyrene under Battus II, who appealed to pharaoh Apries after Greek settlers seized his people's land.
Arabio
Arabio, also spelled Arabion, was a Numidian prince, son of Massinissa II, who recovered part of his father's kingdom after Caesar's assassination in 44 BC.
Aylimas
Ailymas was a North African ruler called "king of the Libyans" by Diodorus Siculus, allied with Agathocles in 310 BC, when he was defeated and killed.
Baga (king of Mauretania)
Baga was a king of the Mauri in northwest Africa around 206 BC, known from a single passage of Livy for helping Massinissa return from Spain.
Bocchus I
Bocchus I was king of Mauretania from about 110 BC, best known for seizing his ally Jugurtha and delivering him to Sulla in 105 BC, ending the Jugurthine War.
Capussa
Capussa, also spelled Capusa, was a king of the Massylii in ancient Numidia who succeeded his father Oezalces and was killed within months by Mazaetullus.
Eunoë (wife of Bogudes)
Eunoë, also spelled Eunoe, was a mid-1st-century BC queen of Mauretania as the wife of King Bogudes, known to history almost solely as one of Julius Caesar's mistresses through a single sentence of Suetonius.
Gauda (Numidian king)
Gauda was king of Numidia in North Africa from 105 to 88 BC, a half-brother of Jugurtha whom the Romans installed after Jugurtha's defeat in the Jugurthine War.
Gulussa
Gulussa was a prince and later joint king of Numidia, the second son of King Masinissa, known for diplomatic missions to Rome and commanding cavalry at the siege of Carthage.
Hiarbas
Hiarbas was a king of the Numidians who contested the throne with Hiempsal II and was defeated and killed by Pompey in Africa in 81 BC.
Hiempsal I
Hiempsal I was a king of Numidia in North Africa who shared the throne with his brother Adherbal and cousin Jugurtha from 118 BC until Jugurtha murdered him in 117 BC.
Hiempsal II
Hiempsal II was a king of Numidia in North Africa from about 88 to 62 BC, the son of King Gauda and father of Juba I.
Juba I
Juba I of Numidia was the last king of an independent Numidia, reigning from about 60 BC until his death in 46 BC after Caesar's victory at Thapsus.
Jugurtha
Jugurtha, in Latin Iugurtha, was king of Numidia in North Africa from 118 BC, whose war against Rome ended in his capture and execution in Rome in 104 BC.
Lacumaces
Lacumaces, also spelled Lacumazes, was a prince of the Massylii who briefly held the Numidian throne as a boy, placed there by the guardian Mazaetullus after Capussa was killed.
Masinissa
Masinissa, also spelled Massinissa, was king of Numidia in North Africa from 202 to 148 BC, having helped Rome win the Second Punic War at Zama.
Massiva
Massiva was a Numidian prince of the royal house of Masinissa, son of Gulussa, who fled to Rome after 112 BC and was assassinated there on Jugurtha's orders.
Mastanabal
Mastanabal was a king of Numidia, the youngest of Masinissa's three legitimate sons, who judged legal causes after 148 BC, won a chariot race at Athens, and fathered Jugurtha.
Mastanesosus
Mastanesosus, also called Sosus, was a king of Mauretania in North Africa who reigned from about 80 to 49 BC, between Bocchus I and Bocchus II.
Micipsa
Micipsa, eldest son of Massinissa, was king of Numidia from 148 to 118 BC; he adopted Jugurtha, whose succession dispute after Micipsa's death provoked the Jugurthine War.
Oezalces
Oezalces, also spelled Oesalces, was a king of the Massylii in eastern Numidia who succeeded his brother Gaia in 206 BC and reigned only a few months.
Sosus of Mauretania
Sosus was a king of Mauretania in North Africa who ruled from about 80 to 49 BC and was the father of his successor, Bocchus II.
Syphax
Syphax, also known as Sifax or Sufax, was a king of the Masaesyli in Numidia who allied with Rome, then Carthage, before being captured by Scipio Africanus in 203 BC.
Vermina
Vermina was a king of the Masaesyli in western Numidia and son of Syphax, ruling a remnant of his father's kingdom from about 202 to 200 BC.