Mauro-Roman kingdom

The Mauro-Roman kingdom (Regnum Maurorum et Romanorum) was a Berber kingdom that existed in the Maghreb between the fourth century and the conquest of the region by the Umayyad Caliphate. Beginning in the sixth century, the polity's realm shrunk and it came to be known as the Kingdom of Altava, after its capital Altava.

In 298 AD, Emperor Diocletian consolidated the Roman Empire. He later withdrew from the area of Volubilis, the Rif mountains in northern Morocco and western Algerian Atlas mountain during and after the Imperial Crisis. Berber rulers created a small independent kingdom, centered around the capital Altava and the fully romanised city of Volubilis.

This kingdom was a vassal state of the Roman empire, but sometimes the Berber tribes living in the territory raided the Roman cities of the coast. The Mauro-Roman kingdom was never conquered by the Vandals, who destroyed the Roman presence in the Maghreb in 429-435 AD. The Vandal kingdom allowed the creation of other Romano-Berber states at the borders, but fell a century later, conquered by the Byzantine empire, who established an African prefecture, and later the Exarchate of Carthage. Since then there it is little historical accounts of the Mauro-Roman kingdom. It disappeared completely when the Arabs conquered the region around 708 AD.

Mauretania and western Numidia were annexed by Rome in 40 AD, and made a Roman Province in 43 AD and later enlarged with the name of Mauretania Tingitana ad Mauretania Caesariensis. But in the fourth century the Roman Empire lost an area in the border of actual Maroc and Algeria to the local Berber tribes.

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