Uzinaza is an ancient
Roman
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Berber city located in present-day
Algeria
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. It is located in the modern commune of
Saneg.
History
Uzinaza was founded by
Septimius Severus
Lucius Septimius Severus (; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the customary suc ...
in 205 AD in central-western
Numidia. The city contains the ruins of a Roman villa dating back to its founding king, which bore the Latinized Berber name of Usinadis.
The shape of the enclosure of the site is that of an irregular rectangle of 300m in length and 200m in width; it is formed by a wall with two meters thick frame of uncut stones. Some columns, pottery fragments and a sarcophagus are on the same ruins, that are near the small river where stood the destroyed walls.
After the Arab conquest in the early eighth century the city disappeared, and now there it is nearby the village of
Saneg.
References
Further reading
Les voies romaines de l'Afrique du Nord
See also
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Mauretania Caesariensis
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Icosium
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Rapidum
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Rusadir
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Name
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Pomaria
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