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Tunisia remained the leading region of the Berber peoples throughout the Punic era (and Roman, and into the Islamic). Here modern commentary and reconstructions are presented concerning their ancient livelihood, domestic culture, and social organization, including tribal confederacies.
[21] Often only a little more than the names of the Berber deities are known, e.g., Bonchar, a leading god. [22] Eventually, Berbero-Libyans came to adopt elements from ancient Egyptian religion. Herodotus writes of the divine oracle sourced in the Egyptian god Ammon located among the Libyans, at the oasis of Siwa. [23]
The subsequent Arabic name for the region Ifriqiya evidently derives from the Roman province of Africa. Adjacent lands to the west were allocated to their Berber allies, who continued to enjoy recognition as independent Berber kingdoms. [2] Roman Africa expanded to encompass modern Tunisia and all of northern modern Africa. [3]
From the Roman period until the Islamic conquest, Latins, Greeks and Numidians further influenced the Tunisians, which prior to the modern era, Tunisians were known as Afāriqah, [32] from the ancient name of Tunisia, Ifriqiya or Africa in the antiquity, which gave the present-day name of the continent Africa. [33]
Ancient history of Tunisia — before the arrival of Islam in the 7th century. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. A.
Along with the rest of ancient Tunisia, it passed into Carthaginian and then Roman control during the time of the Punic Wars. Thenae issued its own bronze coins around the time of Julius Caesar and Augustus, with a female head (either Serapis or Astarte) obverse and a four-columned temple reverse. [3] It also bore the town's name in Punic ...
The National Foundation, Beit El-Hikma, Tunis-Carthage. Tunisian culture is a product of more than three thousand years of history and an important multi-ethnic influx. Ancient Tunisia was a major civilization crossing through history; different cultures, civilizations and multiple successive dynasties contributed to the culture of the country over centuries with varying degrees of influence.
It was excavated from the ancient city of Thugga (modern Dougga, Tunisia), located about 100 kilometers inland from Carthage. The inscription indicates a complex city administration, with the Berber title GLD (cognate to modern Berber Agellid , king or paramount tribal chief ) designating the ruling municipal officer.