Pseudo-Hippolytus placed the Mazices on the same level as the Mauri, Gaetuli and Afri. In the last decade of the 4th century, the Mazices and Austurians began...
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Mažice (German: Maschitz) is a municipality and village in Tábor District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants...
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ordained a priest. At about age 75, about the year 405 AD, word came that the Mazices, a group of Berbers, planned to attack the monastery. The brothers wanted...
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led to conflicts with the Muslim government. Scetis was attacked by the Mazices who "came sweeping off the Libyan desert" in 407-408 AD and was decimated...
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abbot of the monastery he founded around the Tree of Obedience. When the Mazices invaded Scetes in 395, John fled the Nitrian Desert and went to live on...
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be related to early Libyco-Berber tribes, which had been referred to as Mazices in some sources. According to Ibn Khaldun, the name Mazîgh is derived from...
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Hecataeus of Miletus and Maxyes by Herodotus, while the tribe was called Mazices and Mazax in Latin sources. The Meshwesh are known from ancient Egyptian...
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Testaments, the old ascetic reverted to Orthodoxy. In 407/408 AD, as the Mazices invaded the wilderness of Scetes, Bishoy left and dwelt in the mountain...
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forced to leave due to raids on the monasteries and hermitages there by the Mazices (tribesmen from Libya). He relocated to Troe (near Memphis), and also spent...
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west as Africa Proconsularis and as far east as Egypt in league with the Mazices. The Austuriani may be behind the mysterious "Saturiani" against whom the...
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