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Tipasa
Algeria
Date of Inscription: 1982
Criteria: (iii)(iv) Commune and Wilaya (province) of Tipasa N36 32 60 E2 22 60 Ref: 193 |
Brief Description
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 Mauritania.
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