🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Tigisis (Aïn el-Bordj)
Roman to Byzantine (1st–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman-Christian (Donatist/Catholic)
Episcopal twin-church city in Souk Ahras hills with schism basilicas.
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80 places in the atlas, 11 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman to Byzantine (1st–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman-Christian (Donatist/Catholic)
Episcopal twin-church city in Souk Ahras hills with schism basilicas.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman (Hadrian to Diocletian) · Roman (Numidia, Fossatum)
Fossatum Africae southern rampart and ditch bastion south of Gemellae.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Berber
Aurès pass city with bazina tumuli and thermal baths.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman to Byzantine (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Roman (Numidia)
Limes military colony at Biskra oasis with camp and Triton mosaic.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman (100 CE – 7th c CE; Trajanic foundation) · Roman (Numidia, Legio III Augusta veterans)
The northern insula quarter of the perfect Trajanic grid city (12×12 insulae), Timgad North exposes veterans' houses, library with mosaic, northern baths and market, beyond the bli...
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Phoenician / Numidian / Roman · Mauretanian / Roman
Splendid royal capital of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene (25 BCE) then capital of Mauretania Caesariensis, with harbour, great theatre, amphitheatre and museums of Greek copies.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman (Cirtan)
Cirtan confederation castellum with 14-towered walls and oil presses.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Customs station famed for 202 CE Zarai Tariff (longest Latin customs law).
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Hilltop municipium with cyclopean walls and Augustan arch.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Punic (6th c BCE) – Roman – Christian (5th c CE) · Punic / Mauretanian / Roman
Coastal UNESCO port with Punic necropolis (6th c BCE tophet), Roman forum, theatre, and two Christian basilicas (Salsa martyr shrine) on promontory with offshore islet. Numidian–Ma...
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Berber / Roman / Byzantine · Roman / Berber
Veteran colony of Legio III Augusta controlling Hauts Plateaux–Aurès corridor. Tetrapylon Arch of Caracalla (214 CE), amphitheatre, basilica of St Crispina (76 m) with catacombs, Byzantine walls with…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman (2nd c. CE–7th c. CE) · Roman (Numidia)
Municipium famed for 220 CE water-law inscription regulating drought rotation.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman (81 CE – 5th c CE; legionary base 123–238 CE) · Roman (Legio III Augusta)
Africa's largest legionary fortress, Lambaesis housed 6,000 men of III Augusta with principia, baths, amphitheatre, aqueduct and arch of Commodus. Headquarters shrine and numerus i...
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman / Byzantine · Roman
Veteran colonia of Nerva (97 CE) raised to capital of Mauretania Sitifensis by Diocletian. Byzantine fortress 548×416 m encloses forum under modern city; museum holds mosaic hoard; centuriation grid…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian / Roman · Romano-Berber
High-plateau Roman university town famed as birthplace of Apuleius (Golden Ass) and Augustine's school.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman to Vandal–Mauretanian Kingdom (1st c – 7th c CE) · Roman / Mauretanian–Berber kingdom of Altava
Most westerly Roman castrum in Algeria, Altava became 6th c Mauretanian kingdom capital of chieftain Masuna rex gentium Mauraorum, with Latin church inscriptions documenting Romano...
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman to Byzantine (1st–7th c CE) · Roman / Byzantine (Numidia)
Southernmost Numidian walled town 32 ha facing Hodna chott, Thubunae dominates Sahara margin with 1.8 km circuit and Donatist basilica; 411 Conference bishop list.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman (1st–7th c CE; colony under Trajan) · Roman (Numidia)
Mountain road colony with large baths fed by Aurès springs, arch of Caracalla and Byzantine chapel, on Theveste–Lambaesis road.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Numidia)
Pass fort on northern Aurès road, Thamallula guards the Belezma gap with courtyard fortress and road village.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman / Byzantine · Roman
Trajanic veteran settlement of Legio III Augusta (100–117 CE) with perfect grid, forum, arch, macellum and aqueduct feeding nymphaeum. Named for Diana whose forests ringed town, oil-press economy.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Punic to Byzantine (4th c BCE – 7th c CE) · Punic / Numidian / Roman
Seybouse spa city with marble-lined north baths (45×35 m), hillside theatre (62 m) restored by Joly 1905, and Byzantine citadel reusing theatre seats. Hot aquae still flow 28°C.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman · Roman
Auxilia castra of Cohors II Sardorum on Auzia–Lemellef road controlling Tell–Plateaux pass. Fort 180×140 m with canabae, baths, Gordian III rebuild inscription.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman (1st–7th c CE) · Roman (Mauretania Caesariensis)
Cheliff valley fortified village with Donatist basilica, inscription of martyrdom 304 CE, and earthquake-prone castellum walls.