%2004.jpg)
Tipasa
Sign in to saveAlso known as Tipasa in Mauretania
Tipasa, sometimes distinguished as Tipasa in Mauretania, was a colonia in the Roman province Mauretania Caesariensis, nowadays called Tipaza, and located in coastal central Algeria. Since 1982, it has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It was declared a World Heritage Site in danger in 2002, but was removed from the danger list in 2006 following conservation efforts.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Tipasa
- Settlement.other_name
- Tipaza
- Settlement.image_skyline
- View of Tipasa 01.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Algeria
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Algeria
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
- Settlement.population_blank2_title
- Religions
via Wikipedia infobox
~7 min read
Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Punic trading post
- Roman colony
- Christian Tipasa
- Decline
- Modern city
- Tribute to Albert Camus
- Climate change
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
Tipasa, sometimes distinguished as Tipasa in Mauretania, was a colonia in the Roman province Mauretania Caesariensis, nowadays called Tipaza, and located in coastal central Algeria. Since 1982, it has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It was declared a World Heritage Site in danger in 2002, but was removed from the danger list in 2006 following conservation efforts.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tipasa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (2)
On the map
2 mapped locations