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Northern Africa in antiquity (map related to the period under Roman rule) The history of North Africa during the period of classical antiquity (c. 8th century BCE – 5th century CE) can be divided roughly into the history of Egypt in the east, the history of ancient Libya in the middle and the history of Numidia and Mauretania in the west.
At K=9, distinct ancestral components defined the Afroasiatic-speaking populations inhabiting North Africa and Northeast Africa; the Nilo-Saharan-speaking populations in Northeast Africa and East Africa; the Ari populations in Northeast Africa; the Niger-Congo-speaking populations in West-Central Africa, West Africa, East Africa, and Southern ...
Ancient Egypt: Egypt: 3150 BC 2160 BC Moved to Henen-Nesut. The Ancient Greeks called the city Memphis, its native name was Inbu-Hedj. Qal'at Bani Hammad: Hammadid dynasty: Algeria: c. 1007 1090 Moved to Béjaïa: Tagdemt: Emirate of Abdelkader: Algeria: 1835 1847 Tahert Rustamid dynasty: Algeria: 777 909 Thebes: Ancient Egypt: Egypt: 2134 BC ...
The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th millennium BC and ended, depending on the interpretation of the term, either with the conquest by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC or with that by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
9=500 BC – 0 Congo nucleus 10=0 – 1000 CE last phase [47] The Bantu expansion involved a significant movement of people in African history and in the settling of the continent. [48] People speaking Bantu languages (a branch of the Niger–Congo family) began in the second millennium BC to spread from Cameroon eastward to the Great Lakes ...
Utica (/ ˌ j uː t ɪ k ə /) was an ancient Phoenician and Carthaginian city located near the outflow of the Medjerda River into the Mediterranean, between Carthage in the south and Hippo Diarrhytus (present-day Bizerte) in the north. It is traditionally considered to be the first colony to have been founded by the Phoenicians in North Africa ...
[9] The synods of the Ancient (North) African church were held, with but few exceptions (e.g. Hippo, 393; Milevum, 402) at Carthage. We know from the letters of Saint Cyprian that, except in time of persecution, the African bishops met at least once a year, in the springtime, and sometimes again in the autumn. Six or seven synods, for instance ...
List of cities in the Central African Republic; List of cities in Chad; List of cities in the Comoros; List of cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; List of cities in the Republic of the Congo; List of cities in Côte d'Ivoire; List of cities in Djibouti; List of cities and towns in Egypt; List of cities in Equatorial Guinea; List of ...