Massesylians

The masaesyli ( ancient Greek Μασαισύλιοι Masaisylioi , Berber ⵉⵎⴰⵙⵉⵍⵉⵢⵏ Imasiliyen , Latin Masaesyli ) were a westnumidischer tribe. Their settlement area, the Masaisylia , was between the Mulucha River , today's Moulouya , and Cape Bougaron in Algeria.

The kings of the Massesylians were Syphax , Vermina and Arcobarzanes .

swell

• Polybios 3.33.15
• Livy 28.17.5
• Strabo 17.3.9
• Pliny naturalis historia 5.17, 5.19, 5.52, 21.77
• Ptolemy 4.2.17.

literature

• Werner Huss : Masaesyli. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , Sp. 972.
• Max Schwabe: Masaesyli. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 2, Stuttgart 1930, Col. 2057.