Roman expedition against the Garamantes (19 BCE)

The Roman expedition against the Garamantes was a punitive campaign led in 19 BCE by Lucius Cornelius Balbus, the proconsul of Africa, into the Fezzan region of the central Sahara. According to the Garamantian Empire profile, Balbus captured fifteen Garamantian settlements, including the capital Garama. He was rewarded with a triumph in Rome, the last ever granted to a general outside the imperial family.