mauritanias

Updated: May 16, 2025

Claudius incorporated the two Mauritanias, Lycia, Judaea, Thrace, and Britain. Nero added Pontus. These various and extensive countries had every variety of climate and productions, and boasted of celebrated cities.

John Lord - The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.

In the midst of that interval, the ambitious Genseric, in the full tide of apparent prosperity, negotiated a treaty of peace, by which he gave his son Hunneric for a hostage; and consented to leave the Western emperor in the undisturbed possession of the three Mauritanias. This moderation, which cannot be imputed to the justice, must be ascribed to the policy, of the conqueror.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3