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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.
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
The site was abandoned around AD 285, when Diocletian moved the Roman limes of Mauretania Tingitana to the north, near Lixus. There were some inhabitants—according to recent archeological discoveries [5] —in Thamusida for another century after the Roman abandonment. But with the Vandal invasion, the city disappeared around AD 425. [6]
This mining city was once home to 5,000 people before becoming completely abandoned nearly one hundred years later.
Scientists now have a clearer picture of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base long hidden under the ice in Greenland, thanks to a NASA research team's good luck.
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 abandoned city is a military base called Camp Century, built in 1959 by cutting a web of tunnels under a near-surface layer of the Greenland ice sheet. Abandoned in 1967, snow and ice have ...