Kingdom of Capsus
Kingdom of Capsus | |
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 Map of the Romano-Berber Kingdoms, according to the French historian Christian Courtois. Number 6 is the Kingdom of Capsus. | |
| Status | Rump state, exclave |
| Capital | Capsa |
| Common languages | Berber, African Romance |
The Kingdom of Capsus is the name given to a postulated Romano-Berber kingdom located in the North Africa and centered around Capsa.[1][2][3] The existence of the kingdom was proposed by the French historian Christian Courtois in his 1955 book Les Vandales Et L'Afrique, based on a comment made by Victor Vitensis in his work Historia persecutionis Africanae Provinciae.[4][5] Not much is known about this kingdom, and if it did exist, it was likely conquered by Belisarius during or after the Vandalic War, given that by the 6th century, the city of Capsa had become a Byzantine holding.[6]
References
Citations
- ^ Rushworth 2000.
- ^ Halsall 2007, p. 406.
- ^ Halsall 2007, p. 409.
- ^ Victor Vitensis, Historia persecutionis Africanae Provinciae, I, 36.
- ^ Courtois 1955, p. 340.
- ^ Prevost 2008, pp. 25–26.
Bibliography
- Carlsen, Jesper; Ørsted, Peter; Skydsgaard, Jens Erik (1994). "Landuse in the Roman Empire". Analecta Romana Instituti Danici: Supplementum. 22. L'Erma di Bretschneider. ISSN 0066-1406.
- Courtois, Christian (1955). Les Vandales et l'Afrique. Paris: Arts et Métiers graphiques. Retrieved July 28, 2025 – via Internet Archive.
- Halsall, Guy (2007). Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521434911.
- Prevost, Virginie (2008). L'aventure ibāḍite dans le Sud tunisien: Effervescence d'une région méconnue. Humaniora. Vol. 350. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
- Rushworth, Alan (6 April 2000). "From Periphery to Core in Late Antique Mauretania". Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (1999): 90–103. doi:10.16995/TRAC1999_90_103.