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Caesariensis was the easternmost of these provinces, mainly in present Algeria , with its capital at ''Caesaria'' (hence the name ''Caesariensis''; one of many cities simply named after the imperial cognomen that had become a title), now Cherchell . The principal exports from Caesariensis were purple dyes and valuable woods; and the Amazigh or Mauri were highly regarded by the Romans as soldiers, especially light cavalry. They produced one of Trajan 's best generals, Quintus Lucius Quietus , and the emperor Macrinus . Under Diocletian's Tetrarchy -reform, the easternmost part was broken off as a tiny separate province, Sitifensis, called after its inland capital Sitifis, with a significant port at Saldae (presently Bejaia). Both provinces were assigned to the administrative ''diocesis'' of the ''vicarius'' of Africa, in the pretorian prefecture of Italia et Africa, while Tingitana was an outpost of Hispaniae (the diocese on the Iberian peninsula, under the prefecture of Galliae 'the Gauls'). Caesarea was a major center of jewry before 330, Sitifis one of the centres of the bloody solar 'soldier cult' of Mithras , Christianity was spread troughout in the 4th and 5th century. Catholicism was replaced with the Arian heresy under the Germanic kingdom of the Vandals , which was established in 430 (while the Goths devoured the western Roman empire) crossing Hercules' pillar (the Strait of Gibraltar) and whiped out by the Byzantine armies circa 533, joining their North African territories in a -new, no longer 'western'- pretorian prefecture Africa, later transformed into the Exarchate Of Carthage , which was overrun by the Muslim caliphate under the Ommayad dyasty, ending Roman culture there; most became part of the westernmost Islamic province, therefore called (al-) Maghrib . SOURCES AND REFERENCES
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