Colonia Iulia Valentia Banasa - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Colonia Iulia Valentia Banasa - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Iulia Valentia Banasa was a Roman-Berber city in northern Morocco. It was one of the three colonias in Mauretania TingitanaDictionnaire de l'Antiquité. 2005 founded by emperor Augustus between 33 and 25 BC for veterans of the battle of Actium, on top of a Mauretanian village. The site was in fact already occupied by the local Amazigh people from the 4th century BC, or perhaps earlier. Read more on Wikipedia
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