قراءة في مؤتمر سيغا الدولي 206 ق. م و انعكاساته على صراع حنبعل و روما

Abstract EN

With his political skill, Syfax the King of Western Numidia was able to gather Carthage and Rome at the first international conference in the late third century B.

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, on determining the fate of the western basin of the Mediterranean in the city of Siga, the capital of the Kingdom of Masaessyle in 206 BC, trying to mediate between Carthage and Rome in The conflict between them since the year 218 BC in the context of the Second Punic War, whereby the success of Siffax in his mediation required him to maintain a balance between the two powers who were racing to win his alliance, given the importance of his kingdom geographically mediating between the Iberian Peninsula and the region that he would choose The Romans for their first battles With the aim of forcing Hannibal to return from his campaign in Italy to Carthage.

We aim in this matter to address the problem of the roots of the Carthaginian relationship with Western Numidia and its imitation Syphax, then what role did the latter play in the Hannibal and Rome wars? What are the implications of the International Siga Conference for the conduct of Hannibal's war in Africa? And if Scipion and the Romans had tried to win over Syphax in their war against Hannibal in Africa in order to besiege him, then Siphax had defeated the Carthaginians over the Romans because he had already realized that the fate of his kingdom was related to the victory of Carthage and Hannibal over Rome, and despite this, the defeat of Carthage in the battle of Zama 202 years BC.

forced her to accept the terms of the Zama Treaty in 201 BC which not only ended the presence of Carthage as a maritime power in the Mediterranean, but also as a dominant country on its territories in Africa.