Definition of Numidian. Meaning of Numidian. Synonyms of Numidian

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Definition of Numidian

Numidian
Numidian Nu*mid"i*an, a. Of or pertaining to ancient Numidia in Northern Africa. Numidian crane. (Zo["o]l.) See Demoiselle, 2.

Meaning of Numidian from wikipedia

- Numidia was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up Algeria, but later expanding...
- The Numidians were the Berber po****tion of Numidia (present-day Algeria). The Numidians were originally a semi-nomadic people, they migrated frequently...
- Numidian cavalry was a type of light cavalry developed by the Numidians. They were used by Hannibal during the Second Punic War. Numidian cavalry is first...
- Numidian /n(j)uːˈmɪdiən/ was a language spoken in ancient Numidia. The script in which it was written, the Libyco-Berber alphabet (from which Tifinagh...
- Carthaginians and their Numidian allies were repeatedly beaten in battle and the Roman ally Masinissa became the leading Numidian ruler. Scipio and Carthage...
- The Barbary lion was a po****tion of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo. It was also called North African lion, Atlas lion, and Egyptian lion. It lived...
- Aspar was a Numidian man who lived in the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE. He was sent by the Numidian king Jugurtha to the Mauretanian king Bocchus I in order...
- plundering the Numidian countryside, seizing minor Numidian towns and fortresses trying to provoke Jugurtha into a set piece battle, but the Numidian king refused...
- was a king of Numidia, the ancient kingdom of the Numidians in northwest Africa. When the Numidian king Micipsa, who had adopted Jugurtha, died in 118...
- army of more than 30,000 men commanded by the general Hasdrubal and a Numidian force of unknown size under its king, Masinissa. It took place in late...