Battle of Vescera
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| Battle Vescera | |||||||
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| Part of the Muslim conquest of North Africa and the Arab–Byzantine Wars |
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 Umayyad Caliphate |
 Byzantine Empire, Berbers |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Uqba ibn Nafi | Kusaila | ||||||
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| 5,000 | 50,000 | ||||||
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| High | Low | ||||||
The Battle of Vescera (modern Biskra in Algeria) was fought in 682 or 683 between the Berbers of king Kusaila and their Byzantine allies from the Exarchate of Carthage against an Umayyad Arab army under Uqba ibn Nafi (the founder of Kairouan).[1] Uqba ibn Nafi had led his men in an expedition across north Africa, eventually reaching the Atlantic Ocean and marching as far south as the Draa and Sous rivers. On his return, he was ambushed by the Berber-Byzantine coalition at Tahuda south Vescera, defeated and killed. As a result of this defeat, the Arabs were expelled from the area of modern Tunisia for a decade.[2]
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- ^ McKenna, Amy (2011). The History of Northern Africa. Britannica Educational Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 1615303189.
- ^ Conant, Jonathan (2012). Staying Roman : conquest and identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 280 -281. ISBN 0521196973.
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