Princess Kyria or ciria, a Kabyle Amazigh warrior
Her name is ciria, Kyria, or Celia, depending on the sources. It was mentioned by the Roman historian Amiens Marselian. She lived in the 4th century AD. She was the younger sister of the rebel prince, then King Firmus, king of the tribes of the Five Covenant Alliance. She descends from the Yupalini tribe, the daughter of King Noble, where this family ruled over large parts. From the current tribal area to the fourth century AD, and the royal palace of this family was located at the areas of Ain Aisha in Al-Thaniya now, where its ruins are still today.
her youth
Kyria was born in the tribal area in the middle of the 4th century AD, around 350 AD, and she lived a life of luxury and well-being. She is the daughter of chief Donati Nobile, and she is one of his seven welfare. known children (Gildon, Fermos, Samac, Mazuka, Mascozal, Dios, and she is the only girl among them) Samak is not her brother (the others are her siblings from the same parents)
She lived on the estate of her brother Firmus, near present-day Al-Mutija. She was a gifted horsewoman in riding and sword fighting. And she joined her brother's revolution from its inception in the year 370 AD, for this revolution ignited Numidia and stunned the Romans, especially after the advent of deserters from the Roman army at Fermos, as well as the advent of the Donatist Church. to him in his capacity to be part of it, since Fermos was able to storm Rosicada Skikda now and Icosium of Algiers now and even Caesarea Cherchell Currently, which was the capital at that time, and the historian Amiens mentions that this princess was a warrior knight and commander of armies, agitating the revolutionaries against the Roman forces, and she fought the Roman general Theodos, where she forced him in the year 371 AD to retreat from Alonchiris to Mazuna near Gilizan now, and she spent of her wealth The people must assure their loyalty to her brother Firmus
Unfortunately, this princess disappeared from the records after the end of the Fermos revolution with her suicide after the betrayal of her brother Gildon and her defeat by the armies of General Theodos in the year 375. We do not know if she had surrendered to the Roman Forces or whether she preferred to commit suicide like her brother, but she is considered one of the oldest princesses known by name in North Africa.And among the oldest female warriors and fighters among the first grand- mothers of Chief Fatima N'Soumer and the fighters who followed her.
Kyria's End
Some sources say that Kyria died around the year 374, which is the same year that Fermos was defeated. We don't know if she committed suicide, as her brothers Fermos and Gildon later did, or if she was killed in battle, or even died a natural death, or she committed suicide, as his brothers Fermos and Gildon did later.
Source :
_ Res Gestae de Amiens Marcellin
_ Encyclopédie berbère Vol 19 Filage - Gstel, Gabriel Camps "Firmus"