- For other uses of this word, see Zama (disambiguation).
Zama Regia (also called Zama Major or simply Zama) was, on October 19, 202 BC, a site of the Battle of Zama between the Carthaginian Empire and the Roman Republic. The Romans won the battle, thus ending the Second Punic War. It was the only defeat of Hannibal, who was defeated by Publius Cornelius Scipio. A Roman city was built there a few centuries after the battle[1][2][3][4]. Not to be confused with Zama Minor.
References
- ^ TOULOTTE, Géographie de l'Afrique chrétienne proconsulaire (Rennes, 1892), 345-349;
- ^ LEHMANNS in Jahrbücher fur classiche Philologie, XX (supplement), 526-616;
- ^ WINCKLER in Bulletin de géographie et d'archéologie d'Oran, XIV, 17-46;
- ^ Mélanges d'archeologie et d'hist. de l'Ecole Française de Rome, XV, 306-308.