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Roman expeditions to sub-Saharan Africa west of the Nile River. Between the first century BC and the fourth century AD, several expeditions and explorations to Lake Chad and western Africa were conducted by groups of military and commercial units of Romans who moved across the Sahara and into the interior of Africa and its coast.
Some modern historians, such as Vantini and D'Ambrosio, argue that this place is the Murchison Falls in northern Uganda, meaning that the Romans may have reached equatorial Africa. [5] The expedition from Roman Egypt reached the area of Jinja in Uganda, according to historian Vannini: [6] he believes that the legionaries were able to reach Lake ...
At the beginning of the 19th century, European knowledge of the geography of the interior of sub-Saharan Africa was still rather limited. Expeditions exploring Southern Africa were made during the 1830s and 1840s, so that around the midpoint of the 19th century and the beginning of the colonial Scramble for Africa, the unexplored parts were now ...
During the Meroitic period, the city of Meroe, [3] located at Upper Nubia and about 200 km north of Khartoum, was the political, religious, and cultural center of the kingdom. Soon after Egypt fell under Roman rule, C. Cornelius Gallus, the first prefect of Egypt appointed by Augustus, attacked Nubia. The Romans attempted to solidify their ...
Sub-Saharan Roman expeditions-explorations Roman expeditions to Lake Chad and the Niger River (19 BC–90 AD): Roman expeditions (two in the western Sahara, two in the central Sahara, and one in the area of Lake Chad) to subdue warring tribes in the area (like the warlike nomadic tribe of the Garamantes who lived in the current region of Fezzan ...
The Garamantes (Ancient Greek: Γαράμαντες, romanized: Garámantes; Latin: Garamantes) were ancient peoples, who may have descended from Berber tribes, Toubou tribes, and Saharan pastoralists [1] [2] [3] that settled in the Fezzan region by at least 1000 BC [4] and established a civilization that flourished until its end in the late ...
The Romans organized expeditions to cross the Sahara desert with five different routes. All these expeditions were supported by legionaries and had mainly a commercial purpose. One of the main reasons of the explorations was to get gold using the camel to transport it.: [ 4 ]
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