• Dougga / Thugga

  Dougga / Thugga

  Posted by admin on 8. novembra 2009 at 13:43

  

  <img src=’http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/sites/site_794.jpg‘ target=’blank‘ align=’left‘ style=’padding:5px‘>Before the Roman annexation of Numidia, the town of Thugga, built on an elevated site overlooking a fertile plain, was the capital of an important Libyco-Punic state. It flourished under Roman and Byzantine rule, but declined in the Islamic period. The impressive ruins that are visible today give some idea of the resources of a small Roman town on the fringes of the empire.

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