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Timgad is a town in northeastern Algeria, situated in the wilaya of Batna in the Aures, best known for the remains of the Roman city of Thamugadi next to which it is based. It is an archaeological site in the foreground. The Roman town, which bore the name Thamugadi (Colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi) in antiquity, was founded by Emperor Trajan in 100 and with the status of colony. This is the last colony in Africa Roman deduction. Built with its temples, thermal baths, its forum and its great theater town, originally an area of 12 hectares, ends up occupying more about fifty. The city, given his condition and the fact was regarded as typical of the Roman city was listed as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1982. [In Wikipedia ]


General view of ruins of Timgad - Algeria.

View of the Roman Timgad - Algeria.
The Forum and the Theater of Timgad - Algeria.
Cathedral donation to the exterior of the city of Timgad - Algeria
The territory of the city:

A Roman city is unthinkable without his campaign. Long neglected by archaeologists, difficult to apprehend before the development of techniques for large-scale surveys of rural Roman cities have long remained unknown. Yet its territory that the city derived its wealth and that wealth depended on the dynamism of the notables who led it. Paul-Albert in February proposed a reconstitution of the composition of the territory of Timgad to assess the distribution of land ownership on its surface. It shows the image of a territory actually quite narrow: 1500 sq km, 150,000 hectares were not usable because all of the reliefs are important in this space. To the west because the land was limited pretty quickly, after about fifteen kilometers from the neighbors, and Lamafundi Verecunda. To the east the situation is similar and the territory of Mascula should be about twenty miles. In the north, about 25 km, research has revealed a system centuriations probably related to the founding of the colony with a regular plot showing a neat development. In the northwest the plain reveals many ruins and therefore a large density of occupation.

All those lands did not belong to individuals. Instead a large area belonged to the emperor. These imperial domains, divided into at least three sets, were managed by one - or several - freedman procurator who returned it to lease the land and make them grow. The city had about 280 who were to decurions have a minimum area, taking into account the properties of ordinary people and possible possession by foreigners to the city one can not imagine that the territory was dominated by many large properties : The inhabitants of the territory of Timgad were no large farmers. [in Wikipedia ]