?Did the Amazighs own naval ships in the pre-Roman period
The ancient historical references and antiquities recorded for us that the Berbers in northern Morocco, who are called the Moors, during the Byzantine and Roman periods, attacked Roman Spain three times in a row, starting from the period of the rule of the Roman Emperor Hadrian until the era of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
These wars began between the two sides since the assassination of the Amazigh prince, Lusius Quietus, in 118 AD, at the hands of Emperor Hadrian, which led toThe outbreak of the Berber revolution in northern Morocco against Rome. Which lasted until the year 178 AD, the date of the end of the last Berber Moorish campaign against Spain, it was defeated by the legions of the Roman army of Emperor Marcus Aurelius
The inscription commemorating the achievements of the Roman military legions of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in suppressing revolts throughout the Roman Empire, dating the Berber occupation of Andalusia
The importance of the inscription, it refers to the intervention of the legions of General Lilius Vehilius GalIus Iulianus, who led a great military campaign against the Moors in 171 AD in Spain, who had invaded Iberia in the years 146-147 AD, and stayed there for many years and controlled it for a few decades, before being defeated in 171 AD.
These Moors (Berbers) were described as revolutionaries, Mauros Rebelles in Latin on the inscription This historical monument is found in the Museum of Rome in Italy
A link to the archaeological inscription that mentions the Moor Berber revolutionaries in Andalusia, with the possibility of enlarging the image and reading a sentence
MOUROS REBELLE
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The word of the revolutionaries is clear on the inscription as in the following picture in the red frame MOUROS REBELLE See the attached picture
To remind, many Arab nationalists, the enemies of Amazigh history, promote the idea that the Amazigh did not have any material civilization, no construction, no writing or anything else, no armies or ships before the Umayyad Arab occupation, and that these Umayyads were the ones who brought civilization to the country of the Berbers and often The enemies of Berber history mock the fact that the Berbers invaded Andalusia before the Islamic period, and some say whether the Berbers had ships to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean Sea.
And the answer to that is yes, the Berber countries before Islam owned ships, and this is documented in the antiquities, especially in the old Amazigh coins, and the matter does not accept the slightest discussion.
example 1
Coin of the Amazigh Mori king from the Far North of Morocco called BogudAnd which we find in the Book of Money for Ancient Greece, Volume Three
See page 95 of the book The currency under number 8
Numismatique de l'ancienne Afrique
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https://ia600406.us.archive.org/32/items/bub_gb_8LRMAAAAcAAJ/bub_gb_8LRMAAAAcAAJ.pdf
As you can see, on one side of the Amazigh currency a warship appears on one side of the Amazigh currency, which means that he was actually the Amazigh Moorish king with promises, owning a military fleet.. to the point of being proud of him and placing him in his coins
Example 2
Also in the city of Cherchell, which is located west of Algiers, it had a coin with the image of a sailing ship, which means that the cities
The Berbers in the so-called Caesarea Mauritania in Algeria, like the Tangiers in the Far Maghreb, owned and took care of ships . See page 138 of the Money Book of Ancient Africa, Volume Three, Coin No. 213
Numismatique de l'ancienne Afrique
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