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Battle_of_Zama_Animation.webm (WebM audio/video file, VP8, length 20 s, 744 × 526 pixels, 1.03 Mbps overall, file size: 2.47 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
Battle of Zama Part of the Second Punic War Date 202 BC Location Zama, North Africa (near modern Siliana, Tunisia) 36°17′56″N 9°26′57″E / 36.29889°N 9.44917°E / 36.29889; 9.44917 Result Roman victory Belligerents Rome Carthage Commanders and leaders Publius Cornelius Scipio Hannibal Strength c. 30,000 c. 24,000 infantry c. 6,000 cavalry 40,000 or 50,000 36,000 or 46,000 ...
Metellus then advances toward Zama and launches the assault. Similar to the day before, Jugurtha emerges from his ambush and charges at the Roman troops. The foremost soldiers momentarily allow fear and confusion to permeate their ranks, but comrades return to support them.
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The scene depicting the Battle of Zama used 12,000 soldiers and 1,000 Libyan horsemen. [3] Sixteen soldiers were injured during the filming of the battle. [7] The soldiers were then transferred to duty in the Spanish Civil War. [8] Tobis Film participated in the film's production and required that Hannibal's soldiers be Aryans. [9]
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While Livy recounted Naraggara as the historical battle site, Polybius claims it occurred at Margaron, another ancient city nearby, though the exact location is unknown. This may be supported by the fact the features described by Livy and Polybius, in regards to the site of the Battle of Zama, are nowhere to be found near modern Naraggara. [2]
The Zama associated with the battle is likely to be the Zama Regia mentioned in Sallust's account of the Jugurthine War as besieged unsuccessfully by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus. Later, Zama Regia was the capital of Juba I of Numidia (60–46 BC) and so, in the view of the Oxford Classical Dictionary , it was called Zama Regia (Royal ...