Tazoult lambèse
| تازولت Tazoult lambèse |
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 29 ′ N , 6 ° 15 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Algeria | ||
| Batna | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | DZ-05 | ||
| height | 1145 m | ||
 Legion camp: partially reconstructed remains of the Principia gate .
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Tazoult-Lambèse (also Lambèse or Lambessa , Arabic تازولت) is a place in the province of Batna in northeast Algeria . He is best known for his maximum security prison and the Roman ruined city of Lambaesis near him .
location
Tazoult-Lambèse lies at the foot of the Aurès Mountains at an altitude of 1145 m and is surrounded in the west by Jebel Doufana and Mount Oustili and Jebel Tafrent in the south. The place is about eleven kilometers south of Batna , on the road from Batna to Timgad .
history
The Roman ruined city of Lambaesis was discovered by a French expedition in 1844. In the following years France established a penal colony in the same place. By resolution of the National Assembly on September 12, 1848, the city was named La Nouvelle Lambèse. Napoleon III deported 500 insurgents from the June uprising of 1848 to Lambese during his time as President (law of January 24, 1850). In 1849 the construction of a penitentiary began, which would open in 1852. The old Roman city wall was torn down and used as building material for the new buildings. In the years that followed, French soldiers caused severe damage to the Roman ruins.
By 1900 Lambèse had 1,366 inhabitants, including 571 French, and had made a name for itself as a wine-growing region.
On March 10, 1994, Muslim extremists stormed Tazoult prison and helped about 900 prisoners to escape.
Lambaesis
The Roman legionary camp was built on the site of two smaller camps and completed in AD 129. It was the location of the Legio III Augusta .
Since the reign of Septimius Severus , Lambaesis was the capital of the Roman province of Numidia , a municipality and later a colony . Archaeological excavations revealed, among other things, a camp with a praetorium , barracks and amphitheater as well as a civil town with a capitol , temples and theater .
The titular bishopric of Lambaesis is named after this .
literature
- Anthony Ham, Nana Luckham, Anthony Sattin: Algeria . Lonely Planet 2007, ISBN 978-1-74179-099-3 , p. 125 ( Lambèse-Tazoult (Google) ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Jakob Egli : Nomina geographica. Language and factual explanation of 42,000 geographical names of all regions of the world. Friedrich Brandstetter, 2nd edition Leipzig 1893, p. 522
- ↑ Mario da Passano (ed.): European penal colonies in the 19th century . BWV-Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-8305-1225-2 , p. 38 ( excerpt in the Google book search)
- ↑ Katarzyna Pieprzak: Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco . University of Minnesota Press 2010, ISBN 978-0-8166-6519-8 , p. 181 ( excerpt in Google book search)
- ↑ Lambese . In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 10. Altenburg 1860, p. 57.
- ↑ Lambessa . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 12. Leipzig 1908, p. 75.
- ↑ Gunmen Free 900 Muslims From a Top Security Prison in Algeria . New York Times, March 13, 1994