Africa was a province of the Roman Empire. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day northern Tunisia, as well as the Mediterranean coast of modern-day western Libya along the Syrtis Minor. The Roman administrative province is shown, although in Carthaginian times the province was larger. The continent of Africa is named after the Roman province. The Arabs later named roughly the same region as the original province Ifriqiya, a rendering of "Africa."
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