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  • Souk Ahras

    Thagaste or Tagaste was a Roman colony in Berber North Africa. It is now called Souk Ahras. It was the birthplace of Augustine of Hippo and a center of Berber culture.
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, Sites, Augustinian places and routes the central Maghreb.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Souk Ahras
    by Dan Sloan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Souk Ahras

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2002

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Algeria

    Souk Ahras Province

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    First Millennium BC

    Numidian

    Roman + Islamic

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    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

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