Tingitan Mauretania ( lat. Mauretania Tingitana ) is a province of the Roman Empire that occupied the north of modern Morocco (with Ceuta and Melilla ).
| Roman province | |
| Mauretania Tingitanskaya | |
|---|---|
| lat Mauretania tingitana | |
 | |
| A country |  The Roman Empire |
| Enters into | Diocez Spain |
| Adm Centre | Tingis |
| History and geography | |
| Date of education | 42 year |
| Date of abolition | 420s |
The province was established in 42 after the death of the last Moorish king, Ptolemy , by decree of Emperor Claudius , who divided Mauretania along the Mulu River into two parts - Caesarea (west of Algeria) and Tingitanskaya (north of Morocco). Lost in the 420s. in connection with the invasion of Vandals .
Stretched south from the Pillars of Hercules to Salah and Volubilis . The administrative center was the city of Tingis , which gave the name of the entire province. Other significant cities are Volubilis , Lixus and Tamuda.
By 285, the southern boundary of the province returned to the Lukos River for obscure reasons. Sala and Mogador , cities on the Atlantic coast, remained the only ones that maintained contact with Rome and the Roman provinces. Before the arrival of the Vandals, the Roman administration leaves all the cities north of Lukos except Ceuta. Up to the invasion of Muslims in Volubilis, Lixus and, possibly, in Sal remain small settlements [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Akkeraz Aomar. Lixus, du Bas-Empire à l'Islam (fr.) // Lixus. Actes du colloque de Larache (8-11 novembre 1989): collection. - Rome: École Française de Rome, 1992. - p . 379-385 . // Perseus (library)