In the Year 42 of the Common Era, 795 years after the foundation of Rome, the Roman Empire annexed Western Mauretania, a region that corresponds to Northern Morocco and Western Algeria. This marked the complete control by Rome of all the regions that border the Mediterranean Sea, a feat that lasted until the breakup of the Empire in 395CE, and which has never been repeated by any power since then. The Romans fittingly called the Mediterranean Sea "Mare Nostrum", Our Sea. More on the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire in 42CE
