Vermina

{{Short description|King of the Masaesylian Berbers}}

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| footer = A coin of Vermina, on the left Vermina facing right, Phoenician letter {{sc|M}}, on the right a galloping horse and the Phoenician {{sc|WRMND HMMLKT}}, "Vermina the king"

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Vermina ({{Langx|xpu|𐤅𐤓𐤌𐤍𐤃}}, {{Sc|wrmnd}}){{Citation|last=Huß|first=Werner (Bamberg)|title=Masaesylii|date=2006-10-01|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/masaesylii-e725630|work=Brill’s New Pauly|publisher=Brill|language=en|access-date=2022-01-20}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KqNmAAAAMAAJ&q=wrmnd|title=Ancient society|date=1991|publisher=Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven|pages=16|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Huss|first=Werner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvEK7kc3qnQC&pg=PA577|title=Geschichte der Karthager|date=1985|publisher=C.H.Beck|isbn=978-3-406-30654-9|pages=577|language=de}} was the son of king Syphax and king of the Masaesylian Berbers,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rTtLAQAAMAAJ|title=Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans|date=1899-01-01|publisher=J.M. Dent|pages=237|language=en}} a Berber tribe of western Numidia, an ancient Berber kingdom in North Africa.

During the Second Punic War, Vermina sided with the Carthaginians, however his forces only arrived to assist Hannibal after his defeat at the Battle of Zama, leading to Vermina's army to be defeated by the Romans.{{Cite web |title=A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Vermina |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104:entry=vermina-bio-1 |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}} While Vermina escaped this battle, he was forced to sue for peace with the Romans in 200 BC.