Tacfarinas

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Tacfarinas ( tamazight ⵜⴰⴽⴼⴰⵔⵉⵏ Takfarin ; † 24 AD near Auzia , later Aumale , today Sour El-Ghozlane , Algeria) was a Numidian resistance fighter who rebelled against Roman rule during the reign of Emperor Tiberius .

Life

Tacfarinas had initially served among his later adversaries in an auxiliary unit , from which he eventually deserted. He used his experience in the Roman army to organize his uprising in the years 17-24, in which he initially led a very successful guerrilla war against the Roman units with Numidian and Moorish tribes, above all the Musulamians and the Garamanten .

Despite defeats against the Legio III Augusta and its auxiliaries under Marcus Furius Camillus , the proconsul of Africa (17/18), and then against Lucius Apronius Caesianus , the son of the subsequent proconsul Lucius Apronius (18-21), he demanded land and threatened with an endless continuation of the fighting. For a short time, Quintus Junius Blaesus , Proconsul 21-23, in 22 was able to contain the survey. For this purpose, to support the Legion III Augusta stationed here, the Legio VIIII Hispana under the legate Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio was ordered from Pannonia on the Danube to the North African crisis region.

The resistance finally collapsed only with the death of Tacfarinas, who fell in the year 24 in the battle against Publius Cornelius Dolabella and his allied Ptolemy of Mauritania near the fortress of Auzia (today Aumale, 100 km southeast of Algiers ).

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SURNAME Tacfarinas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Numidian resistance fighter against Roman rule
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 24
Place of death Auzia, today Sour El-Ghozlane , Algeria