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Province, 117 CE

Mauretania Caesariensis

Imperial province, equestrian procuratorCapital: Caesarea

The eastern half of the old client kingdom of Mauretania, annexed by Claudius in 44 CE after its last king, Ptolemy — a grandson of Cleopatra and Mark Antony — was executed by Caligula. Its capital Caesarea kept the extravagant Hellenistic building program that Ptolemy's father Juba II, a genuine scholar-king, had lavished on it.

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Sources

  • Cassius Dio, Roman History 59.25
  • Pliny the Elder, Natural History 5.11

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