Centenarium Aqua Frigida
a Pleiades
place
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Creators: E.W.B. Fentress Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: E.W.B. Fentress Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
The ancient name of this fortified grain-house is known only from a Latin inscription describing its restoration by a governor of Mauretaniae Caesariensis in the mid 290s CE under Diocletain and his tetrarchic colleagues. The inscription's findspot, near a spring in Algeria's Kefrida Pass depression, is close to remains of Roman fortifications noticed by French scholars in the 19th century on either side of the pass. They presumably guarded a road that ran south from Muslubium, as well as water sources (the "Aqua Frigida" itself?) supplying Muslubium via a recently discovered aqueduct (Ouaret Ladjouze). The modern toponymic component "K'frida" presumably reflects the ancient "Frigida".
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305059
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- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 11957 (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- centenarium Aqua Frigida (Centenarium Aqua Frigida: Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
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- Tala K'frida (Algerian Arabic, modern)
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fort group
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 31 C3 Centenarium Aqua Frigida
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tala K'frida
E.W.B. Fentress, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Centenarium Aqua Frigida: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305059> [accessed: 15 November 2025]
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