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{{Infobox country
|native_name       = 
|conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Ouarsenis
|common_name       = Regnum warsunum
|era               = Medieval
|status            = Rump state, exclave
|status_text       = Rump state of the [[History:Mauro-Roman Kingdom|Mauro-Roman Kingdom]]
|national_anthem   = 
|life_span         = 430–735
|event_start       = Collapse of the [[History:Mauro-Roman Kingdom|Mauro-Roman Kingdom]]
|year_start        = 430
|event_end         = Annexed by [[Place:Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad Caliphate]]
|year_end          = 735
|p1                = Mauro-Roman Kingdom
|image_p1          = 
|border_p1         = no
|s1                = Umayyad Caliphate
|flag_s1           = Umayyad Flag.png
|image_flag        = 
|image_flag2       = 
|flag_type         = 
|image_coat        = 
|symbol            = 
|symbol_type       = 
|image_map         = Map depicting the Romano-Berber Kingdoms.png
|image_map_caption = The Kingdom of Ouarsenis (2) and other romanized Berber kingdoms of the late sixth century
|national_motto    = 
|common_languages  = Berber, [[Social:African Romance|African Romance Latin]]
|government_type   = [[Social:Monarchy|Monarchy]]
|title_leader      = King
|leader1           = Ortayas
|leader2           = 
|year_leader2      = 
|leader3           = 
|year_leader3      = 
|capital           = Jedars, Caesarea
|legislature       = 
|religion          = [[Religion:Christianity|Christianity]]<ref>{{cite book|title=From Augustine to Gregory the Great: History and Christianity in Late Antiquity|first=Robert|last=Austin Markus|year=2009|isbn=9780860781172|page=11-12|publisher=Variorum Reprints}}</ref> ([[Religion:Chalcedonian Christianity|Chalcedonian Christianity]])
|currency          = 
|today             = Algeria
|year_leader1      = ?
|flag_p1           = Roman coins excavated in Essaouira 3rd century and late Roman Empire cropped no background.png}}

The '''Kingdom of Ouarsenis''' was an independent Berber kingdom located in the Ouarsenis region in the north of present-day Algeria.

== History ==
In 430, the tribes of Ouarsenis/Hodna established a kingdom with its capital at the Roman city of "Timgarta," which will be later named "Tihert" (today called Tiaret). The Kingdom was located in central Algeria. Ortayas was one of its monarchs.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bacha|first=Dmoh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6e6YDwAAQBAJ|title=Algerie Culture Identite: Maghreb Algerie Maroc Tunisie|date=2019-04-23|publisher=Illindi Publishing|isbn=978-1-0955-9126-0|location=|pages=37|language=fr}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[History:Mauro-Roman Kingdom|Mauro-Roman Kingdom]]
* Exarchate of Africa

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* Barnes, Timothy . ''The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. {{ISBN|0-7837-2221-4}}
* Camps, G. ''Rex gentium Maurorum et Romanorum. Recherches sur les royaumes de Maurétanie des VIe et VIIe siècles''
* Hrbek, I., ed. ''General History of Africa III: Africa From the Seventh to the Eleventh Century.''
* {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/lafriquebyzanti00diehgoog|title=L'Afrique Byzantine. Histoire de la Domination Byzantine en Afrique (533–709)|last=Diehl|first=Charles|publisher=Ernest Leroux|year=1896|location=Paris, France|language=French|}}
* Modéran, Y. ''Kusayla, l'Afrique et les Arabes''. In "Identités et Cultures dans l'Algérie Antique", University of Rouen, 2005 ({{ISBN|2-87775-391-3}}).
* {{cite book|title=''Staying Roman : conquest and identity in Africa and the Mediterranean'', 439-700|last=Conant|first=Jonathan|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0521196970|location=Cambridge New York|pages=280–281}}

[[Category:Former kingdoms|Ouarsenis]]

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