Historical place profile
Kherba de Sfisifa
A rural location now in the modern Algerian municipal territory of Djouab (Médéa province) where Gsell and his correspondents (AAA, whence BAtlas) observed Roman ruins including a large building with columns that G. speculated might have been a church.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:295290
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:295290
- Place type
- church-2, settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.099839, 3.395065
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A rural location now in the modern Algerian municipal territory of Djouab (Médéa province) where Gsell and his correspondents (AAA, whence BAtlas) observed Roman ruins including a large building with columns that G. speculated might have been a church.
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 30 F4 Kherba de Sfisifa
Source and reuse
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Research path
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