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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.
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.
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 ...
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This mining city was once home to 5,000 people before becoming completely abandoned nearly one hundred years later.
The city remained with a Roman garrison until the sixth century and now is part of metropolitan Rabat. Thamugadi (Timgad in Algeria): Timgad was founded by Trajan in 100 AD as "Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi" Thysdrus (El Djem in Tunisia): Thysdrus was made "colonia" in 244 AD by Gordian III
Mysteries of the Abandoned is an American documentary television series produced by Like a Shot Productions that documents various abandoned locations and their future. The series premiered on August 20, 2017, and on August 14, 2023, the series debuted its last official season being renamed Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America that focuses on abandoned buildings and locations around the ...