🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Ghirza (Gerisa)
Roman to Islamic (1st–7th c; peak 3rd–4th c) · Libyan (Nasamones) / Roman / Byzantine
Desert frontier with 40 tower temple-tombs, foggara dams and Libyan relief ethnography 150 km inland.
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10 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Earthwork
Roman Iron Age to Middle Ages (1st c. CE Roman fort; Great Moravian 830–907; medieval castle 13th c.) · Roman (Limes Pannonia), Great Moravia, Medieval Hungary
Devín Castle Hillfort and Roman Fort in Bratislava Region, Bratislava-Devín, confluence Danube-Morava cliffs, Slovakia is a Roman Iron Age to Middle Ages (1st c.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Byzantine (legionary 1st–2nd c; civil to 7th c) · Berber / Roman / Byzantine; dolmens Berber
Frontier legion fortress 14 CE of Legio III Augusta with Byzantine mega-fort and 100+ Bronze Age haouanet dolmens on hills.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Roman to Islamic (1st–7th c; peak 3rd–4th c) · Libyan (Nasamones) / Roman / Byzantine
Desert frontier with 40 tower temple-tombs, foggara dams and Libyan relief ethnography 150 km inland.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Severan Roman (201–259 CE) · Roman
201 CE polygonal limes fort 138 m with 146 wax tablets and ostraca archive documenting Legio III vicus.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman Severan (198–238 CE) · Roman
Castellum Dimmidi (Messaad) is Rome's southernmost Algerian outpost, 350 km south of Algiers into true Sahara, a Severan isolated vexillation fort 40×40 m with corner bastions built 198 CE by Legio…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman (Hadrianic–Late Antique, 126–430 CE) · Roman
Gemellae (Mlili) is the pivot of the Fossatum Africae Saharan limes, a Hadrianic legionary vexillation fort 200×190 m with rounded corners and double ditch, guarding the Seguia–Oued Djedi passage.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman to Byzantine (104 CE–7th c. CE) · Roman
Trajanic desert camp 130×80 m anchoring Fossatum Negrine segment.
🇩🇿 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.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Roman (Augustan–7th c. CE) · Roman (Tripolitania)
Syrtic frontier fort at Bu Grada lagoon terminus of limes road.
🇩🇿 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.
