Byzantine fortress at Timgad

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Feb 12, 2025 05:39 PM — History

A sixth century A.D. Byzantine fortress built at Timgad by the governor Solomon.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/114562501

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
35.484237, 6.468666

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Representative Locations:
- Byzantine fortress (AD 300 - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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None

Byzantine fortress at Timgad makes connections with:

Byzantine fortress at Timgad succeeds Thamugadi (unspecified date range)

Byzantine fortress at Timgad receives connections from:

None

Place type:
fort, fort, tower (deprecated)

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Byzantine fortress at Timgad: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/114562501> [accessed: 08 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/114562501 |title=Places: 114562501 (Byzantine fortress at Timgad) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=March 8, 2025 6:56 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}