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Uqba ibn Nafi, an Arab general under …
Years: 532 - 675
Uqba ibn Nafi, an Arab general under the ruling caliph, invades Fezzan in 663, forcing the capitulation of Germa.
Stiff Berber resistance in Tripolitania had slowed the Arab advance to the west, however, and efforts at permanent conquest are resumed only when it becomes apparent that the Maghreb can be opened up as a theater of operations in the Muslim campaign against the Roman Empire.
In 670 the Arabs surge into the Roman province of Africa (transliterated Ifriqiya in Arabic; present-day Tunisia), where Uqba founds the city of Kairouan (present-day Al Qayrawan) as a military base for an assault on Byzantine-held Carthage.
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- Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh)
- Garamantes
- Africa proconsularis (Roman province)
- Tripolitania (Roman province)
- Africa Byzacena (Roman province)
- Cyrenaica (Roman province)
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
- Africa, or Carthage, Exarchate of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Non-dynastic
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Heraclian dynasty
- Islam
- Rashidun Caliphate
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Years: 532 - 675
Locations
People
Groups
- Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh)
- Garamantes
- Africa proconsularis (Roman province)
- Tripolitania (Roman province)
- Africa Byzacena (Roman province)
- Cyrenaica (Roman province)
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
- Africa, or Carthage, Exarchate of
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Non-dynastic
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Heraclian dynasty
- Islam
- Rashidun Caliphate
Topics
Subjects
Regions
Subregions