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Timgad (Arabic: تيمقاد, romanized: Tīmqād, 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 AD. The full name of the city was Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi .
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.
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The city's inhabitants, possibly fearing persecution, fled underground and created an entire world. As many as 60,000 people may have lived in the city. Mervan Yavuz shows figures carved inside ...
This mining city was once home to 5,000 people before becoming completely abandoned nearly one hundred years later.
Dixie Cup Plant: Now. A giant Dixie Cup still rests atop the abandoned building, rusty and empty of the 40,000 gallons of water it once held. The owner hoped to turn the building into 128,000 ...
Ochamchire was a city of 18,700 people in 1978 but was left largely abandoned by the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in 1992–1993. Tkvarcheli is a coal mining town that suffered a drastic population decline as a result of the war in Abkhazia .
Optatus of Thamugadi was, from 388 to 398, a donatist bishop in the city of Thamugadi in the Roman province of Numidia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was an important subject in the anti-donatistic polemic of Augustine , [ 4 ] who was at that time a bishop in Hippo Regius and who called him evil.