Hammam Beni Guecha
a Pleiades
place
resource
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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Jul 16, 2025 05:41 PM
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History
The so-called Hammam Beni Guecha is a ruined Roman spa located just north and east of the modern Algerian village of Chouara Torche (Beni Guecha municipality). The site may be associated with a road station recorded on the Peutinger Map: Fons Carmerata.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305079
36.419617, 5.989584
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location of Hammam Beni Guecha (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Less than certain: Fons Camerata (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Hammam des Beni Guecha (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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- Fons Camerata? (Latin, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Hammam Beni Guecha next place in route Novas Fusciani/Noas Fusciani (AD 300 - AD 640)
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ruin, station (road or coastal), bath, spa
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 31 D4 Fons Camerata?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Hammam des Beni Guecha
E.W.B. Fentress, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Hammam Beni Guecha: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305079> [accessed: 12 February 2026]
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