The Maurétanie-Tingitane is a African province of the Roman Empire.

Maurétanie was initially a kingdom customer of Rome under Bocchus and Juba  II, " most erudite of the rois". The statute of the kingdom was not however that of a real independence: as of the reign of Auguste the kingdom of Maurétanie sees the installation of Roman colonies. At the 1st century, the emperor Claude divided the Maurétanie according to the layout of the river Mulucha (Moulouya), on the one hand in Maurétanie-Cesarean and on the other hand in Maurétanie-Tingitane.

Maurétanie passes under direct Roman administration at the end of the reign of Caligula. This last eliminated last king de Maurétanie, Ptolémée, because of its possible participation in a plot intended to reverse it. The assassination of Caligula, little time after prevented from organizing this takeover, and it was Claude which transformed the kingdom into two provinces: in the west Maurétanie-Tingitane, with Tingis like capital, on a territory corresponding to the north of current Morocco and the south of Spain; in the east the Maurétanie-Cesarean which draws its name, like its binocular, of its capital Césarée de Maurétanie (current Cherchell) capital of the old kingdom.

See too

Internal bonds

• Roman Governor
• Maurétanie-Cesarean

External bonds

• Maurétanie Tingitane: Morocco of the Romans by Yann Bohec, Professor of Roman history at the university Paris Iv-Sorbonne.
• Maurice Euzennat, '' files of Tingitane. The southernmost border ''. Report by Philippe Leveau, Yearly. History, social sciences , 1990 (Persée).
• [[Jerome Carcopino], “end of Roman Morocco”, Mixtures of archeology and history of the French School of Rome , 1940,57, pp. 349-448.]