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Jugurtha
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Jugurtha (d.104 bc), joint king of Numidia
c.118–104. His attacks on his royal partners prompted intervention by Rome and led to the outbreak of the
Jugurthine War (112–105). He was eventually captured by the Roman general Marius and executed in Rome.
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Saddam: Latter-day Jugurtha?(The Last Word)
Magazine article from: The New American; 1/12/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...prison a broken man. So lived and died Jugurtha, king of the North African nation of...and Caesarism about a century later. Jugurtha was the adopted son of the Numidian king...struggle with the Carthaginians. When Jugurtha got embroiled in a dynastic struggle...
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Sallust: The War against Jugurtha.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2009; 496 words
; 9780856686382 Sallust; the war against Jugurtha. Comber, Michael and Catalina Balmaceda. Aris & Phillips 2009 282 pages $36.00 Paperback Aris and Phillips classical...
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Friends, Romans and Countrymen
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/4/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...her quasi-fictional sister Julilla and Jugurtha, King of Numidia, are well conceived yet...shows to good effect the relationship of King Jugurtha to his half-brother Bomilcar. Jugurtha, treated as a cast-off client of Rome while...
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Newly translated student writings shed additional light on Arthur Rimbaud
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/8/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...imagined himself a descendant of the Great Jugurtha, ancient Numidian king and scourge of...For when Rome decided to meddle In Jugurtha's affairs and bit by bit take hold...thing you do not own. If his poem about Jugurtha indicates that Rimbaud would have understood...
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TUNISIA - Miskar & British Gas Operations
Newspaper article from: APS Review Gas Market Trends; 4/6/1998; 700+ words
; ...the Amilcar concession in late 1983. The gas of the nearby Jugurtha field on the same Amilcar block is of poorer quality with only...wells, an offshore gas processing plant, a link with the Jugurtha gas field, a 123 km pipeline bringing the gas ashore, an...
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TUNISIA - British Gas Operations
Newspaper article from: APS Review Gas Market Trends; 5/13/1996; 700+ words
; ...drilled in 1979 and proved a dry hole. The gas of the nearby Jugurtha field, which Elf relinquished in late 1983, is of poorer...wells, an offshore gas processing plant, a link with the Jugurtha gas field, a pipeline bringing the gas ashore, a treatment...
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TUNISIA - Miskar & British Gas Operations.
Newspaper article from: APS Review Gas Market Trends; 4/5/2004; 700+ words
; ...wells, an offshore gas processing plant, a link with the Jugurtha gas field, a 123 km pipeline bringing the gas ashore, an...household use as well as power generation). The gas of the nearby Jugurtha field on the same Amilcar block is of poorer quality with only...
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How did the Colosseum?
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...were more discreetly done away with). When the Moorish king Jugurtha was thrust into the Tullianum, Matyszak tells us that he cried...how cold it was. But if I remember rightly, Sallust quotes Jugurtha saying, 'How cold this bath of yours is.' His cell may...
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POST PUZZLER: 50 for Fun; Phil Brown's trivia quiz.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 5/3/2007; 700+ words
; ...creatures found in the Americas are vireos? 29 What road safety device was invented by Dr Robert Borkenstein in 1954? 30 Jugurtha was a ruler of the 2nd century AD who made a long but ultimately unsuccessful revolt against Roman rule in which country...
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BG starts offshore drilling programme. (Oil & Gas).(BG Group, Tunisia)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: MEED Middle East Economic Digest; 5/3/2002; 700+ words
; ...capital investment on the field to date. BG is in the closing stages of evaluating 3D seismic data shot last year over the Jugurtha field, which, like Miskar and Hasdrubal, is in the offshore Amilcar permit. Haynes says BG proposes drilling a second well...
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Jugurtha
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jugurtha , c.156-104 BC, king of Numidia...his two sons and upon his adopted son Jugurtha. The latter ousted the other two heirs...Numidia; peace was reestablished in 111 BC Jugurtha, on a visit to Rome to explain his acts...
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Gaius Marius
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...was sent to Africa in 109 to deal with Jugurtha, he chose Marius as a member of his...s army. Within 2 years Marius beat Jugurtha from the field, but part of the glory...Sulla, who negotiated the surrender of Jugurtha. As a result, bitter enmity developed...
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Lucius Cornelius Sulla I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...B.C.) under Gaius Marius in the wars against the Numidian rebel Jugurtha. Sulla raised important cavalry forces for Marius and was responsible for the capture of Jugurtha. He also participated in the defeat of the German tribe, the Cimbri...
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Caius Marius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...He served under Scipio Africanus Minor at Numantia and under Quintus Metellus against Jugurtha. Later, when he was commander of Roman forces against Jugurtha, he hastened the end of the war by a bold attack against the Numidians. In 102 BC he...
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Mauretania
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...as modern Mauritania. It was a complex of native tribal units, but by the 2d cent. BC when Jugurtha of Numidia was rebelling against Rome, Jugurtha's father-in-law, Bocchus, had most of Mauretania under his control. The Roman influence...
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