Editing Juba II (section)

===Restoration to the Numidian throne===

In 30 BC, Octavian restored Juba II as king of [[Numidia]].<ref name="MelaRomer1998">{{cite book|author1=Pomponius Mela|author2=Frank E. Romer|title=Pomponius Mela's Description of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6AplSod8IDcC&pg=PA43|year=1998|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0-472-08452-6|page=43}}</ref><ref name="Gagarin2010">{{cite book|author=Michael Gagarin|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNV6-HsUppsC&pg=RA4-PA80|year=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-517072-6|page=80}}</ref> Juba II established Numidia as an ally of Rome. Probably as a result of his services to Augustus in a campaign in Hispania, between 27 BC and 25 BC, the Emperor made the final decision to give him his kingship of Mauretania.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roller |first=Duane W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1eaBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 |pages=73–74 |title=The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier |date=2004-02-24 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-40296-0 |language=en}}</ref> His kingdom replaced the province of Africa Nova which included territories of both Eastern Numidia and Western Numidia. This kingdom of Numidia (except the territory of Western Numidia) was in 25 BC directly annexed to the [[Roman Empire]] as the part of the [[Roman province]] of [[Africa (Roman province)|Africa Proconsularis]] and Juba II received [[Mauretania]] as his kingdom, enlarged by territory of Western Numidia.<ref name="MelaRomer1998" /> The marriage of Juba II and [[Cleopatra Selene II]] likely took place in 25 BC, when Cleopatra Selene was of proper age and Juba II was sent to rule Mauretania.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roller |first=Duane W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1eaBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 |page=86 |title=The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier |date=2004-02-24 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-40296-0 |language=en}}</ref>