Northern Africa 253: Quinquegentiani

Quinquegentiani
By the 250s the Roman Empire was in crisis: two emperors had been killed in foreign wars (Gordian III against the Persians in 244 and Decius against the Goths in 251); plague, first reported in northeast Africa, was ravaging the empire; and inflation was spiraling out of control. Amidst this chaos, a confederation of Mauretanian tribes—the Quinquegentiani or ”five peoples”—rose up against Roman rule in 253, and held out for almost a decade.
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