Hiempsal, was the name of the two kings of Numidia
Numidia
Numidia was an ancient Berber people kingdom in present-day Algeria and part of Tunisia that later alternated between being a Roman province and being a Roman client state, and is no longer in existence today....
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Hiempsal, was the name of the two kings of Numidia
Numidia
Numidia was an ancient Berber people kingdom in present-day Algeria and part of Tunisia that later alternated between being a Roman province and being a Roman client state, and is no longer in existence today....
Hiempsal I, son of Micipsa and grandson of Masinissa, was a king of Numidia in the late 2nd century BC.Micipsa, on his death?bed, left his two sons, Adherbal and Hiempsal, together with his cousin, Jugurtha, joint heirs of his kingdom.... , the son of Micipsa
Micipsa
Micipsa was the eldest legitimate son of Masinissa, king of Numidia.... , was assassinated by Jugurtha
Jugurtha
Jugurtha or Jugurthen was a Berber Ancient Libya King of Numidia, born in Cirta. The name Jugurthen pronounced in Berber Yugur tn or Yugr tn is actually a Berber name and phrase meaning: is greater than them.... .
Hiempsal II was a king of Numidia, the son of Gauda, the half-brother of Jugurtha.In 88 BC, after the triumph of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, when Gaius Marius and his son fled from Rome to Africa, Hiempsal received them with apparent friendliness, his real intention being to detain them as prisoners.... , the son of Gauda
Gauda
*Sanskrit ' :**' "sugar country", a historical country in eastern India, which included Gaur, West Bengal in Bengal, of its eponymous capital, and of its inhabitants .... , the half-brother of Jugurtha.
