Running a website with millions of readers every month is expensive. Not only do we pay for our servers, but also for related services such as our content delivery network, Google Workspace, email, and much more. We would much rather spend this money on producing more free history content for the world. Thank you for your help!
Timgad (Roman Thamugadi) lies on the northern slopes of the Aurès Mountains in present-day Algeria. Emperor Trajan (r. 98-117 CE) founded the city as a military colony in 100 CE. With its square enclosure, orthogonal design, and two main roads, the cardo and the decumanus crossing at right angles through the city, Timgad is a model town planning based on a grid system.
Carole maintains the popular ancient history photo-blog Following Hadrian, where she travels the world in the footsteps of emperor Hadrian.
License & Copyright
This image was first published on Flickr.
Original image by Carole Raddato. Uploaded by Carole Raddato, published on 27 February 2023. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
Raddato, C. (2023, February 27). Timgad, Algeria.
World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/17109/timgad-algeria/
Chicago Style
Raddato, Carole. "Timgad, Algeria."
World History Encyclopedia. Last modified February 27, 2023.
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/17109/timgad-algeria/.
MLA Style
Raddato, Carole. "Timgad, Algeria."
World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 27 Feb 2023. Web. 28 Mar 2023.