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One of the greatest Roman emperors was African
- jevoten 5y agoYes, north-African, i.e. Arab. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus: > He had Italian Roman ancestry on his mother's side, and was descended from Punic forebears on his father's side [..] The Punic people, or Western Phoenicians, were a group of Semitic peoples in the Western Mediterranean who traced their origins to the Phoenicians of the coasts of Western Asia.
- pmdulaney 5y agoAugustine, one of the greatest Christian theologians, was also from North Africa.
- jleyank 5y agoWasn’t the population of Carthage “replaced” several times? Xxx to Phoenician, Phoenician to Carthaginian, Carthaginian to whatever survived falling to Rome, Roman to Vandal, Vandal to Arab/Mameluke? The same geographic location but different cultures… Before that, maybe they were part of the Sea Peoples who conquered most of the western med at the end of the Bronze Age.