Hippo Regius: port in Numidia, best-known for its fifth-century bishop, Augustine, modern Annaba.
Hippo Regius
Basilica, said to be of Augustine
- Phoenician colony on the site of a Numidian settlement, situated on a river called Ubus
- Residence of the kings of Numidia (hence the surname Regius, "royal")
- 49-46 BCE: Sided with Caesar against Pompey and was rewarded (trophee on the Forum)
- Given the rank of colonia
- Birthplace of the Roman author Suetonius
- Churches of the Donatists and the official Christians
- Bishopric of Augustine
- 430 Besieged, relieved, and finally captured by the Vandals, who make it their capital in Africa, until they take Carthage
- 534 Captured by the Byzantines
- 698 Captured by the Arabs
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Hippo Regius, Northern Baths, Cistern
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Hippo Regius, Northern Baths
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Hippo Regius, Northern Baths, Frigidarium, Venus
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Hippo Regius, Northern Baths, Hercules
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Hippo Regius, Northern Baths, Figidarium, Bacchus
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