"Roman Fortress of Suq al-Awty - The Limes Tripolitanus " Topic
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| Tango01 | 27 Aug 2015 10:18 p.m. PST |
"The Limes Tripolitanus was a frontier zone of defence of the Roman Empire, built in the south of what is now Tunisia and the northwest of Libya. It was primarily intended as a protection for the tripolitanian cities of Leptis Magna, Sabratha and Oea in Roman Libya. The Limes Tripolitanus was built after Augustus. It was related mainly to the Garamantes menace. Septimius Flaccus in 50 AD did a military expedition that reached the actual Fezzan and further south. The Romans did not conquer the Garamantes so much as they seduced them with the benefits of trade and discouraged them with the threat of war. The last Garamantes foray to the coast was in AD 69, when they joined with the people of Oea (modern Tripoli) in battle against Leptis Magna. The Garamantes started to become a client state of the Roman Empire, but nomads always endangered the fertile area of coastal Tripolitania. Because of this Romans created the Limes Tripolitanus…"
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| John Treadaway | 28 Aug 2015 2:50 a.m. PST |
Nice find Thanks you Tango John T |
| Zargon | 28 Aug 2015 10:38 a.m. PST |
Yes very interesting Armand thanks, sadly don't hold much hope for some of those ancient monuments in the Middle East though :(
Cheers and forward to Pax Romana. |
| Tango01 | 28 Aug 2015 11:26 a.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it boys!. (smile) Amicalement
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considers the Battle of Delium, 424 B.C.