Historical place profile
Unnamed settlement near Meğana, Algeria
Remains of a quarried ancient settlement of Roman date, recorded by Gsell (AAA, whence BAtlas). Gsell places it approximately 2 kilometers southeast of the village of "Medjana". The location should lie within a kilometer of the BAtlas coordinates: a point west of the modern RN 106 highway between Meğana and Bordj Bou Arreridj in the Algerian wilaya of Bordj Bou Arreridj.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:757729509
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:757729509
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.119423, 4.695872
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Remains of a quarried ancient settlement of Roman date, recorded by Gsell (AAA, whence BAtlas). Gsell places it approximately 2 kilometers southeast of the village of "Medjana". The location should lie within a kilometer of the BAtlas coordinates: a point west of the modern RN 106 highway between Meğana and Bordj Bou Arreridj in the Algerian wilaya of Bordj Bou Arreridj.
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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