For who knows Tipaza, whose beauty and purity is a challenge because it is facing his own misery, weaknesses and failure. We men of this nature! Speaking of St. Salsa is also a challenge for those who can hear the sermons because they put them in front of their responsibility. What shall we do "tomorrow" that in soaps and what we mean? We live in a sick world, creepy, dark, unholy and unclean. And it is in this world where we are called to live! What a challenge!
Tipasa in Roman Africa
On a promontory, sheltered Mount Chenoua, Phoenicians founded a trading post around the fifth century BC, this is the original that the town takes its name, which means "place of passage" or "stop." Others would Tipasa deformation from the Berber word "Tafsa" which means sandstone or limestone, still in use in many areas. The counter grows and becomes a true Punic city, initially subservient to Carthage, and included in the realms Numidians and Mauritanians.
The city will experience a boom under King Juba II and became with Caesaria (Cherchell) one of the foci of the Greco-Roman culture in North Africa in 40 PA. AD, Ptolemy Mauritania, son of Juba II is executed by Caligula. Mauritania became a Roman Caesarean with administrative capital Iol Caesarea. Under the Roman Emperor Claudius I, Tipasa takes the status of Municipality of Roman law and adopts a long wall of more than two kilometers.
Tipasa in Roman Africa
On a promontory, sheltered Mount Chenoua, Phoenicians founded a trading post around the fifth century BC, this is the original that the town takes its name, which means "place of passage" or "stop." Others would Tipasa deformation from the Berber word "Tafsa" which means sandstone or limestone, still in use in many areas. The counter grows and becomes a true Punic city, initially subservient to Carthage, and included in the realms Numidians and Mauritanians.
The city will experience a boom under King Juba II and became with Caesaria (Cherchell) one of the foci of the Greco-Roman culture in North Africa in 40 PA. AD, Ptolemy Mauritania, son of Juba II is executed by Caligula. Mauritania became a Roman Caesarean with administrative capital Iol Caesarea. Under the Roman Emperor Claudius I, Tipasa takes the status of Municipality of Roman law and adopts a long wall of more than two kilometers.
Adrien raised by Tipasa to the rank of honorary colony: Colonia Alia Tipasensis. The city receives all the privileges of Roman citizenship and the late second century, the city reached its peak with a population rose 20 000. Initially limited to the promontory on which was built the modern lighthouse, it will expand to the west at the expense of an ancient Punic necropolis.
Rich in monuments and relics that testify to the major role it plays in the ancient history of Algeria. In the first half of the third century, Christianity there is emerging. The epitaph of Rasinia Seconda is the oldest inscription dated Africa Like many cities in Algeria, Tipasa will suffer the torments of the Donatist schism. We know that in the first century BCE, King BocchusII whose capital is Iol, current Cherchell had a kingdom that stretched from the Atlantic to the Setif region. It was Juba II, who succeeded his kingdom covered BocchusII and Morocco and Algeria today.
In 370, she successfully resisted the attacks of Berber chief Firmus. Although she was surrounded by a protective enclosure, this does not prevent its destruction in AD 430 by the Vandals led by Gaiseric. At the end of the fifth century under Hune Ric. Christians are persecuted and fled by sea to Spain.
In 534, the Byzantine Caesarea and resume Tipasa. Beyond the sixth century, life went on in precarious and temporary and Tipasa eventually suffer the fate of all the abandoned cities; delivered to the wadis and alluvial burial dust.
It is in the nineteenth century that the first excavations took place. Stéphane Gsell published a monograph in 1894, but it was John who in 1946 introduced Bardez modern and scientific methods of work and which constituted the first collections of the museum. Unlike Timgad and Djemila whose ruins appear compact and easily readable Tipasa offers to describe a split site. This is due to the fact that not everything has been cleared and much of the city is still underground. Proof The remains of the great baths, along the road that connects the museum to the archaeological park, whose base is four meters below the current ground level. As it stands, the ruins consist of two large masses. The first, located outside the walls at the entrance of the present town, on the right of the road from Algiers, is a large cemetery with funeral basilica of St. Salsa. The second is the Archaeological Park, located on the western outskirts of the modern city, which includes most of the monuments uncovered.
Hill St. Salsa.
At the time of pagan superstitions, was uncommon faith. To escape the treacherous betrayal and dark, we had to hide, as today, although it was modest. A temple stood on the hill overlooking the town and rocks bathed its rocky base in the waves. This place had been devoting more time to draw back to worship false gods ... Among the one, was dedicated to brass Dragon and it was offered to him libations and sacrifices.
Named after a young martyr of the fourth century, the hill was home to the Eastern necropolis of the city spread beyond the enclosure east of the city. It's a huge cemetery where 4,700 graves "sarcophagi huddle around the church like sheep around their shepherd. This is one of the finest Christian cemeteries of the Western world. Its construction was started nevertheless in pagan times as can be seen the graves of earlier times, one of the most representative is charged Punic tomb in the cliff that secondarily tipped into the sea.
Adrien raised by Tipasa to the rank of honorary colony: Colonia Alia Tipasensis. The city receives all the privileges of Roman citizenship and the late second century, the city reached its peak with a population rose 20 000. Initially limited to the promontory on which was built the modern lighthouse, it will expand to the west at the expense of an ancient Punic necropolis.
Rich in monuments and relics that testify to the major role it plays in the ancient history of Algeria. In the first half of the third century, Christianity there is emerging. The epitaph of Rasinia Seconda is the oldest inscription dated Africa Like many cities in Algeria, Tipasa will suffer the torments of the Donatist schism. We know that in the first century BCE, King BocchusII whose capital is Iol, current Cherchell had a kingdom that stretched from the Atlantic to the Setif region. It was Juba II, who succeeded his kingdom covered BocchusII and Morocco and Algeria today.
In 370, she successfully resisted the attacks of Berber chief Firmus. Although she was surrounded by a protective enclosure, this does not prevent its destruction in AD 430 by the Vandals led by Gaiseric. At the end of the fifth century under Hune Ric. Christians are persecuted and fled by sea to Spain.
In 534, the Byzantine Caesarea and resume Tipasa. Beyond the sixth century, life went on in precarious and temporary and Tipasa eventually suffer the fate of all the abandoned cities; delivered to the wadis and alluvial burial dust.
It is in the nineteenth century that the first excavations took place. Stéphane Gsell published a monograph in 1894, but it was John who in 1946 introduced Bardez modern and scientific methods of work and which constituted the first collections of the museum. Unlike Timgad and Djemila whose ruins appear compact and easily readable Tipasa offers to describe a split site. This is due to the fact that not everything has been cleared and much of the city is still underground. Proof The remains of the great baths, along the road that connects the museum to the archaeological park, whose base is four meters below the current ground level. As it stands, the ruins consist of two large masses. The first, located outside the walls at the entrance of the present town, on the right of the road from Algiers, is a large cemetery with funeral basilica of St. Salsa. The second is the Archaeological Park, located on the western outskirts of the modern city, which includes most of the monuments uncovered.
Hill St. Salsa.
At the time of pagan superstitions, was uncommon faith. To escape the treacherous betrayal and dark, we had to hide, as today, although it was modest. A temple stood on the hill overlooking the town and rocks bathed its rocky base in the waves. This place had been devoting more time to draw back to worship false gods ... Among the one, was dedicated to brass Dragon and it was offered to him libations and sacrifices.
Named after a young martyr of the fourth century, the hill was home to the Eastern necropolis of the city spread beyond the enclosure east of the city. It's a huge cemetery where 4,700 graves "sarcophagi huddle around the church like sheep around their shepherd. This is one of the finest Christian cemeteries of the Western world. Its construction was started nevertheless in pagan times as can be seen the graves of earlier times, one of the most representative is charged Punic tomb in the cliff that secondarily tipped into the sea.
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