Mauretania

n. ancient kingdom in northwestern Africa that was settled by a Berber people and was ruled by Rome from about 100 B.C. to the 5th century A.D. (in the area of present-day Morocco and Algeria)

For the modern country, see Mauritania. For other uses, see Mauretania (disambiguation). In Antiquity, Mauretania was originally an independent Berber kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa (named after the Maure tribe, after whom the Moors were named), corresponding to western Algeria, and northern Morocco. The kingdom of Mauretania was not sited where modern Mauritania lies, on the Atlantic coast south of Western Sahara.
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