Historical place profile
Ouled Agla
Modern Ouled Agla in Algeria (French colonial Lecourbe) was the site of a major Roman settlement, covering an area possibly as large as 30 hectares, although little remains today. Gsell (AAA, whence BAtlas) argued that it should be identified with ancient Equizeto, firmly rejecting earlier attempts to identify it with Mansourah, Bordj Medjana, and El Guerria (the latter still repeated in many epigraphic databases and gazetteers).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:334543
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:334543
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 35.965206, 4.701432
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Modern Ouled Agla in Algeria (French colonial Lecourbe) was the site of a major Roman settlement, covering an area possibly as large as 30 hectares, although little remains today. Gsell (AAA, whence BAtlas) argued that it should be identified with ancient Equizeto, firmly rejecting earlier attempts to identify it with Mansourah, Bordj Medjana, and El Guerria (the latter still repeated in many epigraphic databases and gazetteers).
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 34 C2 Equizeto?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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