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ID: 7001328
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001328
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Timgad (deserted settlement)  Timgad (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 35 29 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 35.4833  decimal degrees
Long: 006 28 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 6.4667  decimal degrees

Note: Site of North Africa's most extensive and best preserved Roman ruins. Timgad was an ancient city strategically important in defending Numidia. It flourished due to the fecund land of the surrounding region, then was destroyed by Berbers in the 7th century. Excavations uncovered the city in 1881. It is now designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Names:
Timgad (preferred,C,V)
Thamugadi (H,V)  ............ ancient
Thamugadis (H,V)
Tamugadi (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Algeria (nation)  ........  Algeria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Batna (province)  ............  Batna (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Timgad (deserted settlement)  ................  Timgad (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Emperor Trajan 100
archaeological site (C)  ............  excavated in 1881
inhabited place (H)
World Heritage Site (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Tamugadi..........  [VP]
.................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Thamugadi..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 934
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 672
....................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8524
....................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Thamugadis..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 934
Timgad..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 934
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 672
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 198
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 934
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 672
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8524
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 17 March 2015
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 198
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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