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Timgad
Numidia · Roman province·Algeria·Founded 100 CE by Trajan
A veterans' colony founded by Trajan for Legio III Augusta. A textbook Roman grid, 17 years old at our snapshot.
Uninhabited since a 7th-century Arab invasion; now a fully excavated, empty UNESCO World Heritage archaeological park in the Aures Mountains near Batna, Algeria.
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