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ID: 5000595
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5000595
Record Type:
administrative
Tamentfoust (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 47 53 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.7980
decimal degrees
Long: 003 14 15 E
degrees minutes
Long: 3.2370
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at Cape Matifou; original colony was destroyed in medieval times & its stones were used to build the nearby city of El Djazaïr; ruins include a large Christian basilica with figurative mosaic decoration in central nave.
Names:
Tamentfoust
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Tametfoust
(
C
,
V
)
Tamenfoust
(
C
,
V
)
La Pérouse
(
C
,
V
)
Rusguniae
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Algeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Algiers
(province) (
P
)
................
Tamentfoust
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
possibly inhabited in pre-Roman times; colony founded here during reign of Augustus
archaeological site (
C
)
............
since 19th cen.
colony (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
La Pérouse..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
Rusguniae..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
....................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
5457
....................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
776
Tamenfoust..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 25 February 2015
Tamentfoust..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 25 February 2015
Tametfoust..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
776
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
5457
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 25 February 2015
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
776
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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