?Who is Queen Syria ⵣ
The answer: She is the first Amazigh woman to command armies in North Africa.
?Who led its armies
On the Romans.
Why didn't we know anything about it? Of course, because it comes from the tribal region, like the rest of the obscured history of this particular region.
She is an older queen than Queen Dehia and the heroine Laleh Fatima Nsoumer. She is the first woman to lead armies in North Africa with her family. So who is Syria, the conqueror of the Romans?
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Her name is Ceria, or Celia, or even Kyria, according to the sources, and she was mentioned by the Roman historian Amian Marcelian. She lived in the fourth century AD and was the younger sister of the rebel prince and then King Firmus, king of the tribes of the Quintuple Alliance. She descended from the Eupalini tribe, daughter of King Noble, where this family ruled large parts. From the current Kabylie region in the fourth century AD, the royal palace of this family was located in the vicinity of Ain Aisha in Al-Thaniyah today, where its ruins remain to this day.
Syria was most likely born in the middle of the fourth century AD, around 350 AD, and she enjoyed a life of luxury and luxury. She lived on the property of her brother Fermus near the current Mitja. She was a skilled horsewoman who was good at riding horses and fighting with swords. She was the owner of great wealth, as Amian Mursalan mentions that she used to lavish the people with a lot of money in order to ensure their loyalty to her brother Fermus.
She joined her brother's revolution since its outbreak in the year 370 AD, as this revolution inflamed Numidia and dizzy the Romans, especially after the Persians from the Roman army joined Firmus, as well as the Donatist Church joining him as he belonged to it, as Firmus was able to storm the Roscicada of Skikda currently, the Icoseum of Algiers currently, and even the Caesarean Church of Charchal. Currently, which was the capital at that time, and the historian Amiens mentions that this princess was a warrior knight and commander of the armies, agitating the revolutionaries against the Roman forces, and she fought the Roman general Theodosius, where she forced him in the year 371 AD to withdraw from Aloncheris towards Mazona, near Gulizan now, and she was spending from her wealth. On the people to ensure their loyalty to her brother Fermus.
After the end of Fermus' revolt with his suicide in 375 AD, she joined his brother, King Gildon, and lived honorably with his family. After the death of her brother, Gildon, she remained within the ruling family, with his daughter, Salvina, who became queen until her exile to the Levant. Syria accompanied her brother Gildon's daughter to her exile in Sham
She is considered one of the oldest princesses known by name in North Africa and one of the oldest female warriors and mujahideen, one of the first grandmothers of Commander Fatima Nsoumer and the female mujahideen who followed her.
the reviewer:
_ Res Gestae de Amiens Marcellin
_ Encyclopédie berbère Volume 19 Film - Gstel, Gabriel Camps "Firmus"