states: [algeria]
category: cultural
year: 1982
location: Commune and Wilaya (province) of Tipasa
region: Arab States
latitude/longitude: 36.5500000000, 2.3833333330
On the shores of the Mediterranean, Tipasa was an ancient Punic trading-post conquered by Rome and turned into a strategic base for the conquest of the kingdoms of Mauritania. It comprises a unique group of Phoenician, Roman, palaeochristian and Byzantine ruins alongside indigenous monuments such as the Kbor er Roumia, the great royal mausoleum of Mauretania.
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