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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Constantine (Cirta) (281 words) |
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| It was separated from the Diocese of Algiers 25 July, 1866. |
| Cirta, which took in the fourth century the name of its restorer, |
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MICROPROZ (551 words) |
| Cirta was first an important Carthaginian settlement (named SARIM BATIM?), then a town of the Numidian Massyli, and subsequently the capital where the ancient kings, Syphax (king of the Massaesyli), Masinissa, Micipsa, Adherbal, and others, lived and built many fine buildings of mud brick in the later third and second century BC. |
| The city of Cirta is a fortress perched high on a diamond-shaped plateau, about 2,000 feet high, srrounded on three sides by a precipitous ravine, through which runs the river Ampsaga (Oued Rummel). |
| Cirta became the capital of Septimius Severus' new province of Numidia (203 AD), and a new stage in its construction and amplification began. |
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