Confederation of five Berber tribes (meaning 'People of Five Tribes') in the Kabylia region of Mauretania Caesariensis, whose alliance with the Bavares and Fraxinenses threatened Roman control of the Maghreb in the 250s–260s CE.
Defeated by the Roman general Licinius Gallienus c. 260 CE; the confederation dissolved back into its component tribes, which continued as distinct entities through late antiquity.
Documents the 3rd-century Berber confederation crises including the Quinquegentiani and their role in the wider Berber challenge to the late Roman empire in North Africa.
Covers third-century Berber confederations and unrest in Mauretania Caesariensis that frame the Quinquegentiani revolt against Rome.