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  • Maktar

  • Maktar

    Maktar or Makthar is a Roman-Berber site in Siliana Governorate, Tunisia. The ancient town was founded by the Numidians as a defense post against the Carthaginians in the 3rd century BC. Among the ruins there are several pre-Roman structures, the Roman forum, the arch of Trajan and the thermal baths.
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, The Royal Mausoleums of Numidia, Mauretania and pre-Islamic funerary monuments.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Maktar
    by Pradigue, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Maktar
    by Mohamed Amine ABASSI, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Maktar
    by Pradigue, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Maktar

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2012

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Tunisia

    Siliana

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    First Millennium BC

    Berber

    Ancient Carthage + Roman + Byzantine

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    Roman & Byzantine Monuments

     

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