Northern Africa, 10 Jan 253: Quinquegentiani
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Political map of Northern Africa on 10 Jan 253 (Africa and Rome in Crisis: Quinquegentiani), showing the following events: Battle of Misiche; Wars of Karibil Ayfa’; Plague of Cyprian; Kingdom of the Blemmyes; Battle of Abritus; Post-Decian currency crisis; Quinquegentiani.

R o m a n E m p i r e

N o r t h w e s t e r n

B a n t u

Sasanian
Persian
Empire

N i l o t i c

p e o p l e s

E a s t e r n
B a n t u

Sao
civilization

C u s h i t i c

p e o p l e s

W e s t e r n
B a n t u

C h a d i c p e o p l e s

A t l a n t i c

↓Rhapta(Ḥim.)

Arabia(R. imp.)

(Azores)(uninh.)

Gorgades?
(Cape Verde)(uninh.)

(Madeira)(uninh.)

Fortunate Islands?(uncon.)

Africa Proconsularis(R. sen.)

Crete
&
Cyrenaica(R. sen.)

Mauretania
Tingitana(R. imp.)

Discorida(Ḥaḑ.)

Kinda(Sab. vas.)

Corsica
&
Sardinia

Bosporus(R. client)

Margiana(Per. vas.)

Tanukhid
K.(R. client)

Bithynia
& Pontus

Mauretania
Caesariensis(R. imp.)

Numidia(R. imp.)

Lycia &
Pamphylia

Sarapion(Ḥim.)

Rhysaddir?(M.T.)

244Persians rout
Romans at Misiche

249?–260?Himyar fights
Hadramawt, Saba’,
and Aksum

Apr 250–?? 270Plague devastates
northern Africa &
Roman Empire

250?Blemmyes start
mounting raids
into Egypt

Jun 251Goths kill Decius
at Abritus

251–270Roman coinage
debased by 90%
over two decades

253–262“Five peoples”
threaten Roman Africa

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