In the third century BC Massinissa was king of the Numidians. His Father, Gaia, was king of the Massylies.
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On the death of the father, the inheritance received allowed the son to achieve unity of the 2 tribes, the Masaesyles and the Massyles into a single people. Thus began the building of the western history of North Africa. In this northern region of the African continent, if the distant past of Egypt and Libya has been clearly established, the countries located to the west of Tripolitania is only known in a hypothetical manner before the advent of Carthage.

The Berber origin of the word couscous does not make any doubt, even if its exact formation has some darknesses. Indeed, the term, in the base form seksu (and various local phonetic alternatives) is attested in almost all the Berber Algéro-Morrocans dialects: kabyle, Chleuh, Riffian… (Cf Dallet 1982, p. 709, Destaing 1938, or Laoust 1920, p. 78, which gives a statement of attested forms).

The St Valentine’s Day of Romans was Lubercus, holidays of the fertility of the shepherds and the herds. Billy goats and goats (tackles) were sacrificed.The half bare young men, coated with some blood of animals, ran (roamed) then in the city, drinking and laughing, while whipping without violence the young ladies whom they crossed with fragments of skin of the sacrificed animals.