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ID: 1087503
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087503
Record Type:
administrative
M'Daourouch (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 06 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 007 59 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 7.9833
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded in 3rd century BCE; birthplace of Apuleius; ruled by King Syphax and then by Massinissa; controlled by Carthage during late empire; significant intellectual center; Byzantine fortress constructed in 535; excavated from 1905 to 1923.
Names:
M'Daourouch
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Mdaourouch
(
C
,
V
)
Madauros
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Madaura
(
H
,
V
)
Madaurus
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Algeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Guelma
(province) (
P
)
................
M'Daourouch
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
............
major excavation activity between 1905 and 1923
fortified settlement (
H
)
............
Byzantine fortress constructed in 535
educational center (
H
)
............
center for intellectuals, notably St. Augustine
Sources and Contributors:
Madaura..........
[
VP
]
.................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Madauros..........
[
VP
]
.................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
10769
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
541
Madaurus..........
[
VP
]
.................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
M'Daourouch..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
125
Mdaourouch..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
541
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
10769
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
541
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
125
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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