Adjacent to the present-day village of Tazoult in Algeria is the Roman arch

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Adjacent to the present-day village of Tazoult in Algeria is the Roman archeological site known as Lambaesis. The Roman army established Lambaesa. The camp of the third legion, Legio III Augusta, appears to have been its origin during the reign of Hadrian, the Roman emperor, between AD 123 and 129. A pillar in a second camp to the west of the big camp still stands with an inscription commemorating address of Hadrian to his soldiers. The decurions of a vicus, ten of which are known by names, are mentioned by AD 166. The vicus most likely became a municipium when it was designated as the capital of the recently established province of Numidia. Even though the native Berbers spoke their own language with some Latinism, the majority of the population of Lambaesis was made up of Romanized Berbers and some Roman colonists and their descendants. Latin was the official and widely spoken language. Gordian III disbanded Augusta, and the legionaries scattered among the provinces of North Africa. However, Valerianus and Gallienus revived the legion in the 250s AD, and it was subsequently renamed Augusta Restituta. Not until after AD 392 did it make its last departure, and the town soon began to decay. In fact, Numidia was divided from Africa Vetus and placed under the rule of an imperial procurator in AD 193 under Septimius Severus. Under new empire structure of Diocletian, Numidia was split into two provinces: Numidia Militiana, or Military Numidia, with its capital at the legionary base of Lambaesis and which included the Aurès Mountains and was under threat from raids, and Numidia Cirtensis, with its capital at Cirta, in the north. However, the two provinces were later merged into one by Emperor Constantine the Great, who oversaw it from Cirta, which was later called Constantina in his honor. Before the Vandal-invasion in AD 428, which started the gradual decline of province and desertification, the province was one of the seven provinces of the diocese of Africa. In AD 320, its governor was elevated to the position of consularis. Although the province was still ruled by the Vandals, Berber incursions essentially kept it confined to the coastal regions. When it was incorporated into the new Praetorian prefecture of Africa following the Vandalic War, it was once again under Roman control. #History #Architecture

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