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Timgad ( Arabic: تيمقاد, romanized : Tīmgād, known as Marciana Traiana Thamugadi) was a Roman city in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria. It was founded by the Roman Emperor Trajan around 100 CE. The full name of the city was Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi. Emperor Trajan named the city in commemoration of his mother Marcia ...
Djémila ( Arabic: جميلة, romanized : Beautiful (one), lit. 'Ǧamīlah'), formerly Cuicul, is a small mountain village in Algeria, near the northern coast east of Algiers, where some of the best preserved Roman ruins in North Africa are found. It is situated in the region bordering the Constantinois and Petite Kabylie (Basse Kabylie).
Tipasa, sometimes distinguished as Tipasa in Mauretania, was a coloniain the Roman provinceMauretania Caesariensis, nowadays called Tipaza, and located in coastal central Algeria. Since 1982,[1]it has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It was declared a World Heritage Site in dangerin 2002,[2]but was removed from the danger list in ...
The Arch of Trajan is a Roman triumphal arch located in the city of Timgad (ancient Thamugadi), near Batna, Algeria. It was built between the later 2nd century and the early 3rd century. The three vaulted arch composed the western gate of the city, at the beginning of the Decumanus Maximus and the end of the road coming from Lambaesis .
Condition. In ruins. Lambaesis ( Lambæsis ), Lambaisis or Lambaesa ( Lambèse in colonial French), is a Roman archaeological site in Algeria, 11 km (7 mi) southeast of Batna and 27 km (17 mi) west of Timgad, located next to the modern village of Tazoult. [1] The former bishopric is also a Latin Catholic titular bishopric .
Timgad. Tubusuctu. Categories: Ancient Algeria. Roman sites in Africa. Archaeological sites in Algeria. Algeria in the Roman era. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Cherchell ( Arabic: شرشال) is a town on Algeria 's Mediterranean coast, 89 kilometers (55 mi) west of Algiers. It is the seat of Cherchell District in Tipaza Province. Under the names Iol and Caesarea, it was formerly a Roman colony and the capital of the kingdoms of Numidia and Mauretania .
The ruins of Madauros are close to the actual city of M'Daourouch ( Arabic: مداوروش) in present-day Algeria. It is possible to see: A Roman mausoleum with some statues. A Roman theatre, reduced in size because of a Byzantine fortification made in 535. Some small Roman thermae. A Roman basilica of the Byzantine era with three sections of ...