Fall of Kingdom of Hodna (539 CE)

The Kingdom of Hodna is the name of a Romano-Berber kingdom located mostly in Mauretania Sitifensis outside the Hodna Mountains in what is present-day Algeria. In the 6th century AD, the polity was led by a king named Ortaias. Initially an ally of the Byzantine Empire, Ortaias was opposed by Mastigas of the Mauro-Roman Kingdom and Iaudas of the Kingdom of the Aurès. It is likely that the Kingdom of Hodna was conquered or absorbed by the Byzantine Empire around 539 after the Praetorian prefect of Africa, Solomon returned land that included the kingdom's territory "into Roman power".

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