Historical place profile
El-Guerria
Remains of superimposed Arab and Roman settlements recorded by Gsell (AAA, whence BAtlas) on and around a hill about three kilometers to the southwest of the village of "Medjana" at "El Guerria" on the "Oued Lechbour". The location should lie within a kilometer of the BAtlas coordinates: a point near modern Guerria and the modern road from Guerria to Meğana in the Algerian wilaya of Bordj Bou Arreridj. A nineteenth century identification of El-Guerria with attested ancient Equizito was soundly rejected by Gsell (AAA 15.91), but it is still reflected in some modern epigraphic databases.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:928998702
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:928998702
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.124116, 4.650294
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Remains of superimposed Arab and Roman settlements recorded by Gsell (AAA, whence BAtlas) on and around a hill about three kilometers to the southwest of the village of "Medjana" at "El Guerria" on the "Oued Lechbour". The location should lie within a kilometer of the BAtlas coordinates: a point near modern Guerria and the modern road from Guerria to Meğana in the Algerian wilaya of Bordj Bou Arreridj. A nineteenth century identification of El-Guerria with attested ancient Equizito was soundly rejected by Gsell (AAA 15.91), but it is still reflected in some modern epigraphic databases.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 31 B4
Source and reuse
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Research path
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