Nuneaton
a market town of Warwickshire, England, on the Anker river and the Coventry canal; 22 miles E. of descended. They were a warlike race, and excelled as horsemen, but were proverbially faithless and unscrupulous. Of Birmingham. It has a good Gothic partheir tribes the Massyli in the E. and the Massaœsyli in the W. were the most powerful. In the grand struggle betwen the Carthaginians and the Romans they at first fought on the side of the former, but subsequently the king of the Eastern Numidians, Massinissa, joined the Romans, and rendered them effectual service in the war with Hannibal. Favored by the conquerors, he united all Numidia under his sway. Of his successors in this kingdom Jugurtha and Juba are the most famous. After the victory of Cæsar over Juba I. in the African war Numidia became a Roman province (46 B. c.) but Augustus afterward gave the W. part, with Mauretania, to Juba II., and the name Numidia became limited to the E. part. For the modern history of Numidia, see ALGIERS.