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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Son of Ra: [QB] @Lioness [b]The Maghreb is sparsely populated today because most is desert. However there is population density along the coast. On a relative basis these populated parts have been populated centuries before the 16th c[/b] I am not talking about the Sahara part of the Maghreb, but6 the coastal part. The coastal part was mostly sparsely populated, excluding Tunisia which was occupied by Carthage. What I am saying there really wasn't any large cities in the Maghreb during antiquity. There were no large cities in areas like Morocco or Algeria during the times of the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks or Romans. The South(Sahel), became more advanced before the Maghreb. I believe Jari explains everything in more detail here. http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=006448 [b]Bow you're saying "minus" Carthage At it's height Carthage had half a million people, mainly Phoenicians from Lebanon[/b] How many people did OTHER parts of the Maghreb have??? Again during antiquity, what other parts of the coastal Maghreb have large scale cities like Carthage? [b]Historian Theodore Mommsen estimated that under Hadrian nearly 1/3 of the eastern Namibia population (roughly modern Tunisia) was descended from Roman veterans. The Roman military presence of North Africa was about 28,000 troops and auxiliaries in Namibia and the two Mauretanian provinces. Also see Cyrenaica and Tripolitania - the must be looked at on a relative basis as per population compared to what was before - sparse poulation of nomads[/b] Now which area besides Tunisia(Carthage) in the Maghreb has a significant population? Tunisia was already known to the Romans due to Carthage and the Phoenicians. Carthage was in Tunisia and I already know Tunisia has a large population. Now addressing your post. Were those Romans limited to Tunisia? Because I am talking about the coastal Maghreb as a whole. Did MOST of those Roman soldiers stay or did they return to Rome? I understand they could have intermixed with the locals. And is 28,000 troops significant? Again I am not talking about Tunisia, but mostly Morocco and Algeria. [b]6th cent Byzantine scholar Procopius' said that the Vandals and Alans numbered 80,000 when they moved to North Africa, Modern scholar Peter Heather estimates that they could have fielded an army of around 15,000–20,000.[/b] Correct me if I am wrong, but weren't the Vandals expelled from North Africa by the Romans? [b]They had armies and three stages of conquest in Africa. Arab Bedouin tribes intermarried with the local berber populations. Examples of these Arab Bedouin tribes migrated into North Africa in the 11th century[/b] True. [b]The coastal regions had the most population density since the drying of the sahara. Libyans had armies large enough to challenge the Egyptians. They were thought to have input form Phoenicians or "Sea People" of across the Mediterranean[/b] Again talking about Northwest Africa. Specifically Morocco and Algeria. [b]Before the Almovarids North Africa was conquered by he Umayyads. In 693 AD, Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan sent an army of 40,000 men, commanded by Hasan ibn al-Nu'man, into Cyrenaica and Tripolitania in order to remove the Byzantine threat to the Umayyads advance in North Africa. Spain was conquered by the Umayyads beginning in 711.[/b] But what happened to the Umayyads when the Almoravid came? Before the Almoravid's went into the Coastal area and Iberia. The coastal area of the Maghreb was sparsely populated. Berber tribes were so spread out. Most Berber tribes that invaded Iberia came from the South(sahara). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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