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Masinissa and his sons possessed large estates throughout Numidia, to the extent that Roman authors attributed to him, quite falsely, the sedentarization of the Numidians.
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Masinissa and sons
* Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus divides Numidia among the three sons of the recently deceased Masinissa.
When Gaia died in 206, his sons Masinissa and Oezalces quarreled about the inheritance, and Syphax — now an ally of Carthage — was able to conquer considerable parts of the eastern Numidian kingdom.
Masinissa sent two ( of his forty-four ) sons to ask for the pro-Numidians to be let back in.
Masinissa and throughout
After Hasdrubal Barca departed for Italy, Masinissa was placed in command of all the Carthaginian cavalry in Spain, where he fought a successful guerrilla campaign against the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio ( Scipio Africanus ) throughout 208 and 207, while Mago Barca and Hasdrubal Gisgo levied and trained new forces.
Masinissa and Numidia
Masinissa ( Numidia ) was to be independent.
* Scipio Aemilianus is sent by the Roman general, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, to Numidia to obtain some elephants from the Numidian king Masinissa, the friend of his grandfather Scipio Africanus.
* Masinissa, king of Numidia ( b. c. 238 BC )
The Carthaginians agree to pay Rome 200 talents per year for 50 years, allow Masinissa to rule Numidia as an independent kingdom, make no war without Rome's permission, and destroy all but 10 of the Carthaginian warships.
* Masinissa becomes king of both the Massyli and the Massaesyli tribes in Numidia and remains a loyal ally to the Romans.
Syphax expels his rival Masinissa and claims himself to be King of Numidia.
* The Carthaginians, prevented by their treaty with Rome from engaging in armed resistance, but equally guaranteed against any loss of territory, appeal to Rome against the depredations of King Masinissa of Numidia.
* Lucius Postumius Albinus is sent by Rome as an ambassador to King Masinissa of Numidia, and to the Carthaginians in order to raise troops for the war against Perseus of Macedonia.
At the end of the war the victorious Romans gave all of Numidia to Masinissa of the Massylii.
Besides the usual Roman troops and auxiliary units that would appear in any Roman army Flamininus's forces also included soldiers from the allied Aetolian League, light infantry from Athamania, mercenary archers from Crete, and elephants and Numidian cavalry from King Masinissa of Numidia.
Until the reign of Jugurtha's grandfather Masinissa, the people of Numidia were semi-nomadic and indistinguishable from the other Libyans in North Africa.
Masinissa ( c. 240 or 238 BC-c. 148 BC ) — also spelled Massinissa and Massena — was the first King of Numidia, an ancient North African nation of ancient Berber tribes.
At the start of the Second Punic War ( 218-201 BC ), Masinissa fought for Carthage against Syphax, the King of the Masaesyli of western Numidia ( present day Algeria ), who had allied himself with the Romans.
The Second Punic War was over and for his services Masinissa received the kingdom of Syphax, and became king of Numidia.
With Roman backing, Masinissa established his own kingdom of Numidia, west of Carthage, with Cirta — present day Constantine — as its capital city.
Masinissa was to be allowed to expand Numidia into parts of Africa.
* Vitale Di Stefano ... Massinissa * ( Masinissa ), King of Numidia
* Masinissa, the first King of Numidia
Adherbal, son of Micipsa and grandson of Masinissa, was a king of Numidia between 118 BC and 112 BC.
Masinissa and Roman
This Roman cavalry superiority was due to the betrayal of Masinissa, who had earlier assisted Carthage in Iberia, but changed sides in 206 BC with the promise of land and due to his personal conflicts with Syphax, a Carthaginian ally.
Roman and Numidian forces under the leadership of the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio and his Numidian ally, Masinissa, defeat a combined army of Carthaginians and their Numidian allies under the command of Hannibal and forces Carthage to capitulate.
* The Roman general, Gaius Laelius, and Rome's Numidian ally, Masinissa, follow Syphax towards Cirta, the Numidian capital.
The Roman censor Marcus Porcius Cato heads a commission which arbitrates a truce between Carthage and her former ally, Masinissa.
Masinissa established a kingdom ( roughly equivalent to modern northern Algeria ) and became a Roman ally in 206 BC.
Masinissa joined the Roman forces and participated in the victorious Battle of the Great Plains ( 203 ), after which Syphax was captured.
At the Battle of Bagbrades ( 203 ), Scipio overcame Hasdrubal and Syphax and while the Roman general concentrated on Carthage, Gaius Laelius and Masinissa followed Syphax to Cirta, where he was captured and handed over to Scipio.
In the Battle of Zama ( 202 ) ( near modern-day Maktar, Tunisia ) Masinissa commanded the cavalry ( 6, 000 Numidian and 3, 000 Roman ) on Scipio's right wing, Scipio delayed the engagement for long enough to allow for Masinissa to join him.
Any hopes he may have had of extending his rule right across North Africa were dashed, however, when a Roman commission headed by the elderly Marcus Porcius Cato ( Cato the Elder ) came to Africa about 155 BC to decide a territorial dispute between Masinissa and Carthage.
Masinissa showed his displeasure when the Roman army arrived in Africa in 149 BC, but he died early in 148 BC without a breach in the alliance.
Masinissa agreed but because of how unfavorable previous Roman decisions had been Carthage refused.
Upon the arrival of the Romans, Mago unleashed a daring attack on the Roman camp with most of his cavalry, under his Numidian ally Masinissa.
Masinissa and him
All through his reign, Masinissa extended his territory, and he was cooperating with Rome when, towards the end of his life, he provoked Carthage to go to war against him.
Masinissa and Numidians
After the Second Punic War, Masinissa started combining Numidians.
Masinissa and .
* End of the Masinissa line of the rulers of Carthage.
During the second Punic war between Carthage and Rome, two Mauri Numidian kings took different sides, Syphax with Carthage, Masinissa with the Romans, decisively so at Zama.
* Having lost his alliance with the Numidian chief Masinissa, the Carthaginian general, Hasdrubal Gisco, finds a new ally in the Numidian king Syphax, who marries Sophonisba, Hasdrubal's daughter, whom until his defection to Rome has been betrothed to Masinissa.
* After being an ally of Carthage and fighting with them, Numidian chieftain, Masinissa switches sides when the Carthaginians are driven from Spain and offers to assist Rome.
However in 206 BC, the new king of the eastern Massylii, Masinissa, allied himself with Rome, and Syphax of the Masaesyli switched his allegiance to the Carthaginian side.
After the death of Masinissa he was succeeded by his son Micipsa.
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