Cartennae

South courtyard of the Ténès City Museum (2004)

Cartennae (also called Cartenna ; Greek  Καρτένναι ) was an ancient port city in the area of ​​today's city of Ténès in the province of Chlef in the north of Algeria .

history

The city was probably founded in the 8th century BC. Founded by the Phoenicians as a trading post in Kartenas . Later, the Romans took control of the city and renamed it Cartennae .

Probably around 30 BC Cartennae Colonia (colony) and the city became Cartennae colonia . Veterans of the Legio I Germanica and Legio II Augusta were settled here by Emperor Augustus (27 BC to 14 AD) .

In the Roman Empire , the city was initially part of the Kingdom of Mauritania , under Emperor Claudius (41 to 54 AD) Mauritania was finally subjugated and divided at the beginning of 43 AD. Cartennae was henceforth in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis . Probably under Emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD) the Baquats plundered the coastal colony of Cartennae.

Due to its location on the coast of the Mare Nostrum ( Mediterranean Sea ) and a little west of the mouth of the river of the same name, the fluvius Cartennas m or Cartennus ( Oued Allala ), Cartennae was an economic trading center and military base of the Mauritanian fleet ( Classis Mauretanica ) .

The Christianity in Cartennae was initially donati table marked. In late antiquity the city was a bishopric, bishops are mentioned in the 4th and 5th centuries. Today's titular bishopric Cartennae of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to this bishopric .

The Roman rule over the city lasted about five centuries, then in 429/430 the city fell into the hands of the Vandals , who supported their land army with supply ships here.

Son of the city

• Victor von Cartenna , bishop, mid-5th century

swell

• Pomponius Mela , Chorographia 1.31
• Pliny , Naturalis historia 5.20
• Ptolemy 4, 2, 4
• Itinerarium provinciarum Antonini Augusti 14, 2
• Augustine of Hippo , epistularum corpus 93, 20-22
• Iulius Honorius , Cosmographia 47
• Geographer of Ravenna , 40, 46; 88, 9

literature

• Philip Smith:  Cartenna . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
• Hermann Dessau : Cartenna. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, column 1620.
• Werner Huss : Cartennae. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 998.

Web links

• Potter, T., DARMC, R. Talbert, J. Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, S. Gillies, T. Elliott: Places: 295240 (Cartenna) . Pleiades. Retrieved February 27, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jona Lendering: Legio I Germanica . In: Livius.org (English).
2. ^ Jona Lendering: Legio II Augusta . In: Livius.org (English).
3. ↑ CIL VIII, 9663 .
4. ↑ Ptolemy 4, 2, 4.
5. ^ Albert Forbiger: Handbook of ancient geography, edited from the sources. Second volume. Political geography of the ancients. Asia. Africa. Verlag von Mayer and Wigand, Leipzig 1844, p. 873.

Coordinates: 36 ° 30 ′ 35.2 "  N , 1 ° 18 ′ 31.8"  E